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Virginia Norwood

American aerospace engineer

Died when: 96 years 77 days (1154 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Virginia Norwood

Virginia Tower Norwood (born January 1927) was a retired American physicist.She is best known for her contribution to the Landsat program having designed the Multispectral Scanner which was first used on Landsat 1.

She has been called "The Mother of Landsat" for this work.


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