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Technology · October 8, 2026

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90

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Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led the software development team for NASA's Apollo missions, has died at the age of 90. A former leader of the Software Engineering Division at MIT, Hamilton is credited with coining the term 'software engineering' and developing the priority-driven software that allowed the Apollo 11 lunar module to land safely despite a computer overload. Her contributions were recognized with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led the software development team for NASA's Apollo missions, has died at the age of 90. A former leader of the Software Engineering Division at MIT, Hamilton is credited with coining the term 'software engineering' and developing the priority-driven software that allowed the Apollo 11 lunar module to land safely despite a computer overload. Her contributions were recognized with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.