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Apollo 13 lost its oxygen supply 200,000 miles from Earth - how NASA brought three astronauts home alive

After an oxygen tank explosion crippled Apollo 13 during its 1970 mission to the Moon, astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...

Margaret Hamilton, pioneering computer scientist whose software code helped to send man to the moon

Margaret Hamilton, who has died aged 90, wrote the software code that helped to land Nasa’s Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon on July 20 1969 and see them returned safely to Earth four days later.
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The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.
Washington Post

Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90

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 ...

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut John Young jumped into the air while saluting the flag, creating one of NASA’s most unusual photographs from the Moon

Apollo 16 commander John W. Young was captured in a remarkable moment, leaping while saluting the American flag on the lunar ...