Virginia Tower Norwood (January 8, 1927 – March 26, 2023) was an American aerospace engineer, inventor, and physicist.[1] She was best known for her contribution to the Landsat program,[2] having designed the Multispectral Scanner[3][4] which was first used on Landsat 1. She has been called "The Mother of Landsat" for this work.[5]
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^Radde, Kaitlyn (March 31, 2023). "Virginia Norwood, a pioneer in satellite land imaging, dies at age 96". NPR. Retrieved April 2, 2023. When asked if she liked the nickname Mother of Landsat, she told NASA: 'Yes. I like it, and it's apt. I created it; I birthed it; and I fought for it.'
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(MSS) started taking digital images of Earth. The MSS, designed by VirginiaNorwood at Hughes Aircraft Company starting in 1969, captured and transmitted...
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