Margaret Hamilton, NASA Software Pioneer Behind Moon Landing, Dies at 90
The American computer scientist whose software helped land Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon and shaped modern software engineering has died at age 90.
Margaret Hamilton, the American computer scientist who led the software development for the Apollo space program, has died at the age of 90. This was reported by The Washington Post and Croatian news outlet Index.hr.
Hamilton is regarded as one of the most prominent women in the history of NASA. The software she developed for the spacecraft guidance computer played a crucial role in the success of the Apollo 11 moon landing and laid the groundwork for modern software engineering.
Further details regarding the circumstances of her death have not yet been released.
Sources: The Washington Post, Index.hr
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