The New York Times | 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 on Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.

Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter, Lauren.

Ms. Hamilton was a young mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1960s, putting her husband through law school by working in a computer lab. When she learned that M.I.T. was designing in-flight computers for the moon mission, she eagerly joined the team.

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In 2016, President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ms. Hamilton in the East Room of the White House. Credit…Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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