Margaret Hamilton, pioneering computer scientist whose software code helped to send man to the moon

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.

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died

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.
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The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...
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What really happened when NASA's Apollo test rocket broke apart in 1965

NASA expected its May 19, 1965, Apollo A-003 mission to demonstrate an emergency escape system under carefully planned test ...
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Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful ...
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Apollo 11 Moon Landing Timeline: From Liftoff to Splashdown

To overcome the Earth’s orbital gravity, NASA required a rocket 100 times more powerful than the Mercury boosters that launched the first American astronaut into orbit in 1961. The three-stage Saturn ...

Margaret Hamilton, NASA computing trailblazer who helped Apollo 11 land on the moon, dies at 90

The scientist led the software engineering team at MIT during the Apollo program and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2016 ...