Margaret Hamilton, whose software sent humans to the moon, dies at 90
Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later said, "There was no choice but to be pioneers."
Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer whose software put the first NASA astronauts on the moon, has died at age 90. Hamilton's death — of unspecified causes, on Sept. 30 — was announced Wednesday by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where... [5712 chars]
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