# @apnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeQJQ7Vjj_1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71369465-apnews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T23:45:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Associated Press (@AP) — https://gondola.cc/AP

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Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful symbol of women in technology, has died. She was 90.

Hamilton died Sept. 30 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her daughter, Lauren Hamilton, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said on the social platform X that her work helped make humanity’s first journeys to the moon possible.

Read more at the link in bio.

#APPhoto by Carol Francavilla

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