Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.

She was the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project, housed at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory, in 1965.

Watkins, a geologist who worked with NASA's Mars rover Curiosity a decade ago, has made her second trip to the space station ...

Apollo 1 was supposed to be another step toward the Moon, but a cabin fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a ground test. The tragedy forced NASA to halt the crewed ...

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s ...

Overview of the Obituary and Historical Significance1.1 Passing of a Pioneer in Computer ScienceOn September 30, 2026, Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield), a computer scientist who led the develop ...

The pioneering MIT computer scientist helped establish software engineering as a discipline and played a critical role in one ...

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Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential ...

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking researcher whose Apollo software helped land astronauts on the moon, has died.

There is no credible evidence that Kubrick was involved in staging the moon landing.