Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA’s crewed Apollo ...

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by NASA's Apollo lunar program, has died at the age of 90, her former employer said Wednesday.

Margaret Hamilton helped develop the software that guided NASA’s Apollo missions and played a key role in landing astronauts on the Moon.

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Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. By Trip Gabriel Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.

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Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it lacked in glory it made up for in technological contributions. By Kenneth ...