Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA’s crewed Apollo missions, died on Sept. 30, 2026, at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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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.

Margaret Hamilton, who led development of NASA’s Apollo flight software, has died at 90.

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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped Apollo 11 land on the Moon and whose towering stack of code became iconic, has died aged 90 Draper Laboratory, restored by Adam Cuerden/Wikimedia Commons ...

Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon ...

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.

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