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, has died.

Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s ...
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Earlham grad who wrote onboard Apollo software has died at 90

Margaret Hamilton led a team of 100 in writing the onboard software that made the lunar landings possible. The Indiana native ...