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 ...

On July 20, 1969, just seven minutes before humanity’s first moon landing, an alarm suddenly sounded aboard the U.S. Apollo ...

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.

Margaret Hamilton’s death on September 30 marks the close of a career that helped turn the dream of lunar exploration into a technical reality. The computer scientist, who died at a hospital in ...

Margaret Hamilton was the computer scientist who led the team behind Apollo's flight software. Her pioneering work helped the Apollo 11 computer handle unexpected overloads during the historic 1969 ...

At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an independent engineering discipline.

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 ...