Remembering Virginia Norwood, the ‘mother’ of NASA’s Landsat program

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By Will ShanklinApr 14, 2023, 5:37 pm235 ptsTrending
If you haven’t heard of Virginia Norwood, it’s about time you did. An aerospace pioneer whose career would have been historic even without its undercurrent of triumph over misogynistic discrimination, she invented the Landsat satellite program that monitors the Earth’s surface today. Norwood passed away…

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