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.

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.

Pioneering software engineer whose work was critical to the Apollo moon landings ...

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, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led software engineering for Apollo computer systems at MIT, has died in the United States at age 90, ...

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA’s crewed Apollo ...

Click to open image viewer. This Command Module Simulator was used at Kennedy Space Center to train the Apollo astronauts. It was used in conjunction with the Lunar Module Simulator. The simulated ...