On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...

The pioneering MIT computer scientist helped establish software engineering as a discipline and played a critical role in one ...

Margaret Hamilton, a computing pioneer whose software was key in taking the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon, has died at age 90. Her death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Margaret Hamilton, who led the MIT team that wrote Apollo's onboard flight software, died September 30 at age 90, MIT ...

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s ...

Hamilton's team wrote the software that kept Apollo 11's Moon landing going when its computer overloaded. She died on ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

The final flight of the Apollo program was the first flight in which spacecraft from different nations docked in space.

At MIT, Margaret Hamilton led the development of the Apollo onboard software and established software development as an ...

Click to open image viewer. This Command Module Simulator was used at Kennedy Space Center to train the Apollo astronauts. It was used in conjunction with the Lunar Module Simulator. The simulated ...