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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Margaret Hamilton, a computing pioneer whose software was key in taking the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon, has died at age 90. Her death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later ...

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