Margaret Hamilton
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Oct 16, 2026
Skeeter NashHOST
We hear about her and her work from Kent Peterson, KC0DGY.
Kent PetersonCORRESPONDENT
The work of software programmer Margaret Hamilton helped navigate the Apollo 11 space mission towards the reality of the lunar surface.
Kent PetersonCORRESPONDENT
She was a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when she applied to join the on-campus software team that was working on the Apollo space project.
Kent PetersonCORRESPONDENT
She was the first woman to join the team as a programmer, assigned first to develop software for Apollo's uncrewed missions.
Kent PetersonCORRESPONDENT
As a result, the module went forward toward a safe landing.
Kent PetersonCORRESPONDENT
She later received the Presidential Medal of Freedom among her many honors.
Kent PetersonCORRESPONDENT
Margaret Hamilton died on September thirtieth in a Cambridge, Massachusetts hospital.
Kent PetersonCORRESPONDENT
She was ninety years old.
Chris SloweHOST
But the question is, can we actually get ourselves there?
Zach WeinersmithHOST
yeah yeah so let's close out i was just going to say there is actually a book on this by slightly kooky economist robin hansen called the age of m like emulations brain emulations if you want to read someone who actually tried to think through all these questions in an extremely technical way it is available but let's move on because there's also so so much for our deep dives let's let's go through some weird news this week uh or news anyway um probably the the uh The big thing this week, which was some sad news, is we lost Margaret Hamilton.
Zach WeinersmithHOST
She died at age 90.
Zach WeinersmithHOST
Marty, do you want to talk about her?
DanHOST
Yep.
Christian HeilmannHOST
So Margaret Hamilton is dead, uh, and, uh, that did the rounds.
Christian HeilmannHOST
I mean, everybody who is something saw, saw the picture of her with the printout of the code from the Apollo Moon landing and stuff, and she was just an incredible, incredible person.
Christian HeilmannHOST
And if you haven't, uh, read up on her yet, it's so, so good.
Christian HeilmannHOST
I guess, Louise, you, you hammered that one into your daughters' heads already, right?
Luise FreeseGUEST
Uh, I, I, I, I did.
Luise FreeseGUEST
I, I even have, um, Margaret Hamilton as a Lego model, just, like, with all the codes.
Luise FreeseGUEST
[laughs]
Chuck TomasiHOST
And finally, we have one more from Hackaday.
Chuck TomasiHOST
Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer pioneer, has passed away.
Chuck TomasiHOST
Pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton passed away at age 90, leaving behind a legacy that shaped modern computing.
Chuck TomasiHOST
As director of the software engineering division at the MIT Instrumentation Lab, she led the team that developed the onboard navigation software for NASA's Apollo space program.
Chuck TomasiHOST
Bet you didn't know that.
Erik OnarheimHOST
In other news, some, some computer science history.
Erik OnarheimHOST
Um, Margaret Hamilton, famous computer programmer on the Apollo space missions at NASA, just passed away, uh, May...
Erik OnarheimHOST
Excuse me, just passed away.
Erik OnarheimHOST
So that, that's a real bummer.
Peter UlrichHOST
Unfortunately, the first news item of the week is quite sad.
Peter UlrichHOST
Uh, Margaret Hamilton has died last week.
Peter UlrichHOST
She is most known as the engineering head, uh, behind the moon landings of NASA in 1969, and she led the department that programmed the moon landing, uh, software.
Peter UlrichHOST
Yeah, she died at the ripe old ali- age of 90.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
What about the Hidden Figures movie? You really should join me on Rumble on a Saturday or something, and we can watch Hidden Figures in Mystery Science Theater.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at MIT.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Okay.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Yeah.
Brendan ByrneHOST
We'll speak with the International Space Station- National Laboratories, Patrick O'Neill, about the science aboard the ISS.
Brendan ByrneHOST
Then, Margaret Hamilton, well-known for being a software engineer lead during NASA's Apollo program, has died.
Emily CarneyGUEST
She and, and others in her field basically invented the term, uh, software engineering.
Brendan ByrneHOST
We'll speak with space historian Emily Carney about Hamilton's accomplishments and her legacy with NASA, MIT, and her contributions to the computer science community.
14 MINS LATER
Brendan ByrneHOST
Patrick, thanks so much for joining us.
Patrick O'NeillGUEST
Brendan, thank you so much.
Brendan ByrneHOST
Still to come, a look at Margaret Hamilton's NASA legacy.
Emily CarneyGUEST
You know, she led the team that was really responsible for the code for the Apollo command module and the, uh, the Apollo, uh, the lunar module computers.
David CooperHOST
Uh, not only was she a famous software engineer, she literally coined the term software engineer, and she helped, uh, dramatically i- in getting humanity to the moon in the Apollo program.
David CooperHOST
So tell me about Margaret Hamilton.
Carmi LevyGUEST
Hamilton.Yeah, she is a giant in the, the, in software engineering, and as you said, she defined the term.
Carmi LevyGUEST
And so she led the development of the, the, the program to develop flight software for the Apollo missions in the '60s.
Carmi LevyGUEST
And a lot of those sort of realities, those, those, uh, best practices have been incorporated in software ever since.
Carmi LevyGUEST
Uh, and she, she's largely considered sort of the mother of, uh, of that technology.
David CooperHOST
RIP Margaret Hamilton.
David CooperHOST
Carmi Levy, tech analyst, thanks for being here, my friend.
Tim KellyGUEST
[laughs]
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Oh, Margaret Hamilton.
Tim KellyGUEST
The first, the first female-
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Margaret Hamilton, first female programmer hired to work at, on-
Tim KellyGUEST
Okay.
Tim KellyGUEST
She, she's one of many, right?
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