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Margaret Hamilton, whose software sent humans to the moon, dies at 90

NPR | By Rachel Treisman
Published October 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM EDT

Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer whose work helped put humans on the moon, has died at 90. She is also credited with formalizing the discipline of software engineering.

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