Margaret Hamilton, a pioneering computer scientist who helped establish the field of software engineering and led the MIT team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo moon ...

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.

Margaret Heafield was born in 1936 in Paoli, Indiana, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a professor. She grew up in the Midwest and studied maths at the University of Michigan and Earlham College.

Margaret Hamilton, the 'software engineering' pioneer behind Apollo 11's flight software, has died aged 90, leaving a lasting legacy in space and computing.