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.

On July 20, 1969, just seven minutes before humanity’s first moon landing, an alarm suddenly sounded aboard the U.S. Apollo ...

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led Apollo flight software development, has died aged 90. Her work helped Apollo 11's computer manage overloads during the lunar landing.

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 ...

At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an independent engineering discipline.

Margaret Hamilton, the 'software engineering' pioneer behind Apollo 11's flight software, has died aged 90, leaving a lasting legacy in space and computing.

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Margaret Hamilton’s work on the Apollo mission was not just critical to the Moon landing, but also to the development of software engineering as a field.