The Economic Times

In 1969, she helped Apollo 11 carrying Neil Armstrong land on the moon. Indiana woman wrote the code that made it happen. She was MIT's first female programmer

Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist from Indiana, played a crucial role in NASAs Apollo programme by leading the team that developed the onboard flight software for Apollo spacecraft. According to NASA, her work helped make the 1969 Moon landing possible and popularised the term software engineering. During Apollo 11, her software handled unexpected computer overloads during the lunar descent. Hamilton later received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2016.