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“To say Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer—to say she was ahead of her time—would be a dramatic understatement.”
Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on September 30, aged 90. | HT Explainers
Margaret Hamilton, the MIT scientist who helped develop Apollo flight software and prepare NASA missions for unexpected problems, has died.