Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90
News Source : BBC News
News Summary
- Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the team who developed the software for Nasa's Apollo missions.
- She led a team of engineers writing and testing all onboard in-flight software for the Apollo 11 project.
- In 1969, moments before the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, an onboard computer raised an alarm, signalling an error was occurring.
- The error detected the computer was overloaded, and for a moment it looked like the complex landing might not be achieved.
- In 2016, Hamilton's life work was honoured by Barack Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to science and space travel.
The computer scientist behind groundbreaking research that helped land Nasas astronauts on the moon, has died aged 90.
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