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Screenshot of nytimes.com: Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code (nytimes.com)

6 points by ChrisArchitect 17 days ago | 1 comments

New York Times article about Margaret Hamilton's pioneering software work before computer science became male-dominated; the capture shows a bot-block page.

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Screenshot of news.mit.edu: Margaret Hamilton has died

Margaret Hamilton has died (news.mit.edu)

2038 points by muglug 18 days ago | 236 comments

MIT News obituary reporting the death at 90 of Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program.

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Screenshot of esa.int: All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)(esa.int)

429 points by cybermango 6 months ago | 243 comments

ESA article on the toxicity of lunar dust, which caused Apollo moonwalkers 'lunar hay fever' symptoms and smelled like spent gunpowder.

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#apollo-program on Hacker News

Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code(nytimes.com)

Margaret Hamilton has died(news.mit.edu)

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)(esa.int)

Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code (nytimes.com)

Margaret Hamilton has died (news.mit.edu)