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Hamilton, who led the development of computer software for NASA’s Apollo program, passed away on September 30, 2026, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her contribution was ...

On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...

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The Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City is your ticket back to the Golden Age of Flight, and it’s been waiting for you ...

Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on ...

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Margaret Hamilton, a computing pioneer whose software was key in taking the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon, has died at age 90. Her death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Margaret Hamilton, the MIT scientist who helped develop Apollo flight software and prepare NASA missions for unexpected ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s ...