Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90

1. 1958
   Hamilton graduates with a mathematics degree from Earlham College
2. 1959
   She goes to work for MIT, initially on weather prediction software
3. mid-1960s
   She starts at MIT's Instrumentation Lab, which had a NASA contract for Apollo
4. 1968
   She becomes assistant director in charge of the command and service module team
5. into the 1970s
   She continues working at the Instrumentation Lab, then founds two software companies
6. 2016
   President Obama awards her the Presidential Medal of Freedom
7. Sept. 30
   Hamilton dies at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts

“To say Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer — to say she was ahead of her time — would be a dramatic understatement”