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Margaret Hamilton, the MIT scientist who helped develop Apollo flight software and prepare NASA missions for unexpected problems, has died.
Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later said, "There was no choice but to be pioneers."
Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer who led NASA’s Apollo flight-software development at MIT, has died at 90. Her error-detecting software became crucial during the Apollo 11 lunar landing and helped establish software engineering as a discipline.