After an oxygen tank explosion crippled Apollo 13 during its 1970 mission to the Moon, astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...

NASA expected its May 19, 1965, Apollo A-003 mission to demonstrate an emergency escape system under carefully planned test ...

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

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 Hamilton, who has died aged 90, wrote the software code that helped to land Nasa’s Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon on July 20 1969 and see them returned safely to Earth four days later.

Hamilton popularized the term "software engineer" and created computer programs that could anticipate problems. She received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and was inducted into the National Aviation ...

While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, Collins was left alone in the Columbia command module. He later ...

PHOTO/Nasa-Sam Lott The Apollo programme has its origins in the 1961 declaration by President Kennedy, with the objective of ...

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful ...

Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, ...

The race to the lunar surface is officially on, and China is making sure it stays in the running. In a rare public statement, ...

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969.Credit...NASA/Alamy Supported by By Trip ...