Apollo 11, Margaret Hamilton and Moon
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Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon missions,
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Her pioneering software code guided Apollo 11
A pioneering software engineer whose code helped get humans onto the moon for the first time has died at 90. Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the onboard software for NASA's Apollo missions,
Neil Armstrong's inflight coverall jacket is up for sale in an Oct. 17 online charity auction, and a sale estimate ranges from $800,000 to $1.2 million.
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The Apollo 11 footage NASA called gone forever, until a surplus auction changed everything
When NASA concluded the original Apollo 11 moon landing tapes had been erased and recycled, the story seemed closed. Then three reels surfaced from a government surplus sale, bought decades earlier for $218 and nearly sold off for scrap.