ScienceApollo software pioneer Margaret Hamilton dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that programmed the first computers used in NASA’s Apollo moon missions, has died aged 90. MIT said she was a pioneering influence on software development. She later founded software companies and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

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