Margaret Hamilton, who led software team for Apollo missions, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led the software development team for NASA's Apollo missions, died on September 30 at the age of 90. Her death was confirmed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she worked from 1959 until the mid-1970s. Hamilton is widely credited with coining the term 'software engineering' and was instrumental in developing the priority-driven software that allowed the Apollo 11 lunar module to land safely despite a computer overload. In 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led the software development team for NASA's Apollo missions, died on September 30 at the age of 90. Her death was confirmed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she worked from 1959 until the mid-1970s. Hamilton is widely credited with coining the term 'software engineering' and was instrumental in developing the priority-driven software that allowed the Apollo 11 lunar module to land safely despite a computer overload. In 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.