Margaret Hamilton has died

Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by asah on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:55PM (#50000747)

wow, that's a lot of hate and presumption.

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by userbinator on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:55AM (#50001915)

"presumption"... or evidence?

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Re:Margaret Hamilton has died by ChickeNES on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:35AM (#50002873)

I think there's truth she gets too much credit for the priority task system (Hal Laning designed it in 62-63, Hamilton did not join until '65), but as far as I can tell the twitter poster is simply wrong:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Comanch...

> # MOD NO. 00 BY M.HAMILTON DEC.12, 1966

https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/mit_dev_plan_meetin...

Here is her name in '67 management meeting, not sure how she can be an "entry level hire" in '68, when she's in management meetings in '67?

https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/ApolloOrg-Group-23B...

And this has her in charge of CSM Programming on 9/30/68, almost three months before Apollo 8 flew.

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