Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped save the Apollo 11 moon mission​, has died.

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 11 lunar module. The module’s computer had been overwhelmed with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image by Draper Laboratory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons. Margaret Hamilton, the trailblazing computer scientist whose ...

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

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...