The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

She was the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project, housed at MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory, in 1965.

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.

Apollo 11 software pioneer Margaret Hamilton, whose work helped guide the Moon landing, has died at the age of 90.

Margaret Hamilton, the programmer whose code kept Apollo 11 from aborting its lunar landing in 1969 and who helped invent the ...

Margaret Hamilton, the trailblazing computer scientist whose software helped Apollo 11 reach the moon, has died at the age of ...

Margaret Hamilton helped develop the software that guided NASA’s Apollo missions and played a key role in landing astronauts ...

Margaret Hamilton, an American computer programmer and engineer whose groundbreaking research helped NASA astronauts land on ...

Hamilton popularized the term "software engineer" and created computer programs that could anticipate problems. She received ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the team designing the Apollo mission's guidance software, has died. Here's why she's considered a pioneer in computers. (AP Photo) ...

Boeing Global Services offers a drop-in replacement for the control and display unit, with an AMLCD screen that emulates the physical keypad and a single part number covering three layouts. The FAA ...

Margaret Hamilton’s work on the Apollo mission was not just critical to the Moon landing, but also to the development of ...