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Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist behind groundbreaking research that led to the first Moon landing, has died aged 90. Hamilton led a team of engineers creating all onboard in-flight software for Nasa's Apollo 11 project that guided US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land safely on the Moon. The team's famous software engineering was immortalised in a 1969 photograph of Hamilton standing beside the stack of printed code that towered beside her. "I was attracted both by the sheer idea and the fact that it had never been done before. I was the first programmer to join and the first woman they hired," she told the Guardian in 2019. In 2016, Hamilton's life work was honoured by Barack Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to science and space travel. Tap the link in @BBCNews's bio to read more about the life of the trailblazing computer scientist. (MIT, Getty) #MargaretHamilton #MoonLanding #BBCNews

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