Margaret Hamilton, NASA Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90 in the United States

Margaret Hamilton, the American computer scientist who led the development of the software for NASA's Apollo missions, died on September 30, 2026, at the age of 90. Her death was confirmed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked from 1959 to the mid-1970s. Hamilton was a pioneer in software engineering, a term she coined, and her work was crucial to landing astronauts on the Moon in 1969. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.