Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided Apollo to the Moon, Dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton’s death on September 30 marks the close of a career that helped turn the dream of lunar exploration into a technical reality. The computer scientist, who died at a hospital in ...
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Last man on moon, Apollo 17’s Jack Schmitt, reveals secret hidden in lunar dust that could spur space-travel boon

The last man to walk on the moon says he can’t explain what it was like up there but that more and more people may learn soon enough — thanks to a trillion-dollar industry hidden in the lunar dust. Dr ...
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Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...
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Margaret Hamilton, the woman behind the software that helped guide Apollo to the Moon, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton helped develop the software that guided NASA’s Apollo missions and played a key role in landing astronauts ...

Margaret Hamilton, Who Led a Software Team for NASA's Apollo Program, Dies at 90

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

MIT pioneer who helped make Apollo moon landing possible dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon ...

"She saved Apollo 11’s Moon Landing": Who was Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped NASA land on the moon?

Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team that developed Apollo's flight software. During the Apollo 11 landing, the system helped ...

Who Was Margaret Hamilton? Woman Whose Software Helped Save Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Margaret Hamilton was the computer scientist who led the team behind Apollo's flight software. Her pioneering work helped the ...

Margaret Hamilton's Apollo feats used so little storage memory

Remembering Margaret Hamilton, a software engineering giant on the Apollo missions, and considering how numbers change over ...
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The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 15, 1969 (UPI)--- "Go" reports streamed in from launch crews, weathermen and global support forces today for the launch of the three Apollo 11 astronauts tomorrow on history's ...

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential ...