{"id":"32e5262d-e46d-4e9b-9cb9-4d0ea7038bfe","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx5yn46j41zpo","domain":"bbc.co.uk","outlet":{"name":"BBC","country":"GB","cred":5,"lean":0,"curated":true,"owner":"British Broadcasting Corporation"},"title":"Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90","plainHeadline":"Margaret Hamilton, software engineer for Apollo 11, dies at 90","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["Margaret Hamilton led MIT's Software Engineering Division for Apollo missions.","Her team wrote and tested on-board software guiding Apollo 11.","She described as first programmer to join and first woman hired.","NASA project faced a 1969 overload alert soon before landing, mitigated by priority software.","Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016."],"topics":["Science","Space","Education"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-08T04:49:13.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-08T05:01:09.825Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/06914a13-22e9-4db2-832f-3c631bf00bbb","storyId":"06914a13-22e9-4db2-832f-3c631bf00bbb","image":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/4635/live/ee80f190-c2d0-11f1-9bbb-c9af641c55ad.jpg","author":"Claire Keenan","dek":"Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom."}