In 1969, just before Apollo 11 was about to land on the moon, an emergency alarm rang. “Our astronauts didn’t have much time, but thankfully they had Margaret Hamilton,” said Barack Obama as gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. #womeninscience www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
"Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners." — Margaret H. Hamilton, RIP Resilience in software programming, safety as a core priority. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
