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.

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available for anyone to read, download, and tinker with. NASA’s Chris Garry made the code available on ...

Software pioneer Margaret Hamilton passed away at the end of September 2026 at the age of 90. Her work, including overseeing ...

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient ...

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969.Credit...NASA/Alamy Supported by By Trip ...

An open-source replica recreates the Apollo astronauts’ keypad and display using a Raspberry Pi, microcontrollers and ...

Apollo 11 software leader Margaret Hamilton dies aged 90, leaving a major legacy in software engineering and spaceflight NASA/Wikimedia Commons Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the ...