Margaret Hamilton led the NASA software engineering team that developed the software enabling the Apollo program's astronauts to land on the Moon.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by NASA, MIT, Computer History Museum, and MIT Technology Review; minor nuance that she was employed by MIT Instrumentation Lab, a NASA contractor, not directly by NASA. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed ... (seed:science_and_space)
- https://computerhistory.org/profile/margaret-hamilton/ (corroboration)
- https://nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/a11Hamilton.html (corroboration)
- https://science.nasa.gov/people/margaret-hamilton/ (corroboration)
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/16/579/margaret-hamilton/ (corroboration)