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Margaret Hamilton, pioneering mathematician who helped the United States go the moon, has died at 90. Hamilton was the first woman hired as a programmer on the Apollo project and led the team that designed the onboard guidance computers for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life…
Follow Bhaskar English for latest updates on NASA scientist Margaret Hamilton in Cambridge Massachusetts. She led the team responsible for developing the onboard flight software used in the crewed Apollo missions. Her work played an important role in the history of space exploration and helped establish software…
The best memorial is a renewed commitment to the competence, testing, and engineering discipline that made her work consequential.