RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Key points

• Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term software engineering, has died aged 90. She led the development of onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s.
• During the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, her software recognised it was overloaded and dropped lower priority tasks, allowing the Eagle lunar module to land safely. Hamilton was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
• She later founded two software companies.