美国国家航空航天局的传奇科学家玛格丽特·汉密尔顿于9月30日去世，享年90岁2。汉密尔顿是软件工程领域的开创者，她领导的团队为阿波罗计划编写了登月飞船的船载飞行软件，为阿波罗11号成功登陆月球提供了技术支撑12。
汉密尔顿从1959年开始在麻省理工学院工作2，1965年加入NASA的阿波罗计划软件开发团队，成为该项目的第一位程序员，也是第一位女性程序员2。到1968年，她已晋升为阿波罗指挥舱和服务舱团队的助理主任，领导超过400名员工的软件开发团队2。汉密尔顿还发表了超过130篇学术论文，并先后创办了Higher Order Software和Hamilton Technologies公司2。2016年，她获得前总统奥巴马颁发的总统自由勋章2。
Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer who directed software development for NASA's Apollo program and enabled the historic moon landing of Apollo 11, has passed away at age 90 12. Hamilton died on September 30 2.
Hamilton began her career at MIT in 1959 and joined NASA's Apollo program software development team in 1965 as the project's first programmer and first female programmer 2. By 1968, she had risen to assistant director of the Apollo command and service module team, overseeing more than 400 people working on the Apollo software initiative 2. Beyond her contributions to space exploration, Hamilton authored over 130 academic papers and founded two technology companies, Higher Order Software and Hamilton Technologies 2. Her groundbreaking work established her as a founder of the software engineering field 2.
Her achievements were recognized at the highest levels when former President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 2.
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