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Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA’s Apollo program, dies at 90 - NBC News
Publisher description: Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful symbol of women in technology, has died.
NewsAPI | Oct 9, 2026 | The Associated Press
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Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful symbol of women in technology, has died. She was 90. Hamilton died Sept. 30 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her daughter, Lauren Hamilton, told The Associated Press on Thursday. Her early focus there included working with a meteorology professor on weather prediction software, according to the MIT News article.
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