Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led NASA's Apollo onboard flight software team, passed away at age 90 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Known for her work at MIT and the Instrumentation Lab, she oversaw the development of code that made the moon landings possible. Later in life, she became a prominent symbol for women in STEM, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 for her contributions to software engineering, a field she helped define during its infancy.

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led NASA's Apollo onboard flight software team, passed away at age 90 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Known for her work at MIT and the Instrumentation Lab, she oversaw the development of code that made the moon landings possible. Later in life, she became a prominent symbol for women in STEM, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 for her contributions to software engineering, a field she helped define during its infancy.