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.

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

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.

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969.Credit...NASA/Alamy Supported by By Trip ...

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, ...

At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an independent engineering discipline.

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 ...