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Patch Notes - LEGACY CODE: The Woman Who Taught Apollo to Handle the Unexpected
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Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering software engineer who led development of Apollo's onboard flight software at MIT, died on September thirtieth at age ninety. Her death was announced on October seventh.
Her work helped establish software engineering as a discipline and contributed to the fault-tolerant systems that allowed Apollo Eleven to continue its lunar landing despite computer overload…