Apollo Program Astronauts

Hamilton, Moon and Apollo

Margaret Hamilton, the woman behind the software that helped guide Apollo to the Moon, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton helped develop the software that guided NASA’s Apollo missions and played a key role in landing astronauts on the Moon.

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The National Space Society Honors the Life and Legacy of Apollo Software Engineer Margaret Hamilton

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RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

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"She saved Apollo 11’s Moon Landing": Who was Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped NASA land on the moon?

Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team that developed Apollo's flight software.

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Margaret Hamilton, scientist who worked on NASA's Apollo program, dead at 90

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NASA Apollo Moon mission software pioneer Margaret Hamilton dies at age 90

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A New Book Shows How Project Gemini Led to the Glory of Apollo

Gemini astronauts risked their lives to prove that spacewalking was possible.

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Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module.

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Pen that saved the Apollo 11 astronauts sells for over $800K at auction

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission. Several precious pieces of space history hit the auction block in ...

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Anita Mitchell Recalls Life With Apollo 14 Astronaut in Memoir; New Book Explores Lunar Flight, Family Life and Space History

Anita Mitchell reflects on marriage to Edgar Mitchell, media pressure, and life on Earth during the Apollo 14 lunar mission.

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The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race

The Space Race was a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and American astronauts.

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Did Apollo 17 astronauts witness UFO on moon? What's in disclosure files

The Apollo 17 astronauts were the last humans to set foot on the moon, and apparently the three crew members saw some very interesting sights during the mission. While scouring the lunar surface for intriguing rock samples in 1972 to take back to Earth ...

Moment Nasa scientist Margaret Hamilton receives presidential medal of honour

Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the team who developed the software for Nasa's Apollo missions, which coined the term "software engineering". And in 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor - the nation's highest civilian honour - by Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.