Science, inventions & engineering
Margaret Hamilton
Born 1936
Massachusetts connection
MIT in Cambridge
Hamilton led the team that developed important flight software for NASA’s Apollo program at MIT. Software is a set of instructions for a computer. Her team planned for problems that could happen during a mission. Massachusetts work helped astronauts travel to the Moon.
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