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Margaret Hamilton, Apollo 11 software lead, dies at 90
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October 9, 2026
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Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who helped NASA land on the moon, has died. She was 90. As a young mathematician at MIT, Hamilton was the first female programmer to work on the Apollo project in the 1960s. She went on to lead the 100-person team that wrote software for t
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