MIT Honors Late Pioneer Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Architect
MIT honored the late Margaret Hamilton, who died at 90, for creating the flight software that enabled lunar landings. She joined MIT in 1959, briefly worked with Edward Lorenz, and led the Apollo software team.
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MIT News released a tribute to Margaret Hamilton, noting her death at age 90 and celebrating her development of the onboard flight software that guided astronauts to the moon.
Hamilton, an Indiana native with a mathematics degree, began her MIT career in 1959, worked briefly in the meteorology department with Edward Lorenz, and later led the software team responsible for the Apollo missions.
