Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the Moon, dies

WASHINGTON — Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist behind groundbreaking research that helped create the code that helped land Apollo astronauts on the Moon, has died. She was 90.Hamilton's former employer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), confirmed her death, adding she died on September 30. The cause of her death was not disclosed.Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the team that developed the software for NASA's Apollo missions, which coined the