Margaret Hamilton's software was critical in ensuring the success of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

#MargaretHamilton, #software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90 Her team's code kept #NASA's #Apollo11's landing on course when guidance computer became overloaded She worked on other projects at #MIT, including #aerospace systems, before hearing of Apollo missions in 1965. She immediately applied to join the team supporting them. She initially wrote software for uncrewed Apollo missions, later leading development of flight software for crewed program. https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/08/margaret-hamilton-software-pioneer-who-helped-put-humans-on-the-moon-dies-at-90/5301988

#MargaretHamilton, trailblazer whose #software powered #Apollo11 #MoonLanding, dies at 90 | Space | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/07/margaret-hamilton-moon-computer-software #NASA #Apollo #ComputeScience #SoftwareEngineering #Technology #Computing #SpaceTravel