Sandego.net – Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist whose work helped guide NASA’s Apollo astronauts to the moon, has died at age 90. Her career reshaped the way software was designed, tested and trusted at a moment when human spaceflight depended on computers performing flawlessly under extraordinary pressure.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology confirmed Hamilton’s death through its Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. No cause of death was made public.…