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R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
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Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term "software engineering" and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, Hamilton was also immortalized as a LEGO minifig the following year—part of the "Women of NASA" set that also included astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride. “To say Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer—to say she was ahead of her time—would be a dramatic unde

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