Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped save the Apollo 11 moon mission​, has died.

Margaret Hamilton, who has died aged 90, wrote the software code that helped to land Nasa’s Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon on July 20 1969 and see them returned safely to Earth four days later.

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led Apollo flight software development, has died aged 90. Her work helped Apollo 11's computer manage overloads during the lunar landing.

The scientist led the software engineering team at MIT during the Apollo program and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2016 ...

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

Margaret Hamilton, the 'software engineering' pioneer behind Apollo 11's flight software, has died aged 90, leaving a lasting legacy in space and computing.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image by Draper Laboratory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons. Margaret Hamilton, the trailblazing computer scientist whose ...

Margaret Hamilton’s work on the Apollo mission was not just critical to the Moon landing, but also to the development of software engineering as a field.