"She saved Apollo 11’s Moon Landing": Who was Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped NASA land on the moon?

Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team that developed Apollo's flight software. During the Apollo 11 landing, the system helped ...

Woman Whose Code Saved the Moon Landing Dies at 90

However, the software that Hamilton and her team built came to the rescue, telling the onboard computer to prioritize ...

The woman whose software guided the Apollo missions has died

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.
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Apollo 11 launch anniversary: Celebrating NASA’s historic mission that sent humanity to the moon

Exactly 57 years ago today, NASA launched the historic mission that took humanity to the Moon. On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with three ...
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The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service ...