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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M. I. T. , was 90.

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Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M. I. T. , was 90.

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