Margaret Hamilton, who led NASA’s Apollo software team dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led software work for NASA's Apollo missions, has died at the age of 90.
She died on September 30, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announcing it a week later.
Her software could spot errors, letting the Apollo 11 computer keep working as the lunar module landed.
The idea came after her young daughter triggered a fault on a simulator, a safeguard later proven right on Apollo 8.

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