Margaret Hamilton, mind behind moon landing, dies at 90 after pioneering software work

The computer scientist led Apollo guidance software development, helped avert a landing abort in 1969 and popularised the ...

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 ...

Margaret Hamilton, pioneering programmer whose software rescued the first moon landing, dies at 90

Our astronauts didn’t have much time. But thankfully, they had Margaret Hamilton,” President Barack Obama said when he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Moon disaster loomed! But one woman's code saved Apollo 11.

Imagine this: humanity’s greatest leap, seconds from touching an alien world. The Apollo 11 lunar module, descending, inches away from history. Then, a terrifying sound. A flashing alarm, code 1202, ...

Margaret Hamilton's NASA contributions in focus as computing pioneer dies at 90; tributes pour in

Margaret Hamilton, who led development of NASA’s Apollo flight software, has died at 90.

How Margaret Hamilton was NASA pioneer who put man on moon & saved lives of Apollo 8 astronauts thanks to her daughter

A MAN may have been first on the moon – but it was actually a woman who put him there. Trailblazer Margaret Hamilton led the ...

Margaret Hamilton Who Saved The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Dies At 90

Margaret Hamilton, the visionary computer scientist whose pioneering code guided NASA’s Apollo missions to the moon and ...

RIP 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 ...

Who Was Margaret Hamilton? Woman Whose Software Helped Save Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Margaret Hamilton was the computer scientist who led the team behind Apollo's flight software. Her pioneering work helped the ...

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.

Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90

"Forget It" was the name of a small computer program never thought to be needed, which will nonetheless go down in history ...

MIT pioneer who helped make Apollo moon landing possible dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon ...