Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who led the development of the Apollo 11 onboard flight software, died on September 30 at age 90. Her code detected and recovered from a critical computer alarm during the lunar landing, and she was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Source: Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90 — Guardian World
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