Virginia Norwood, left, and Labor Secretary James Hodgson discuss Landsat designs in 1972.Norwood, who was integral to the design of the satellite technology, died March 26 at 96. (Harry J. Weiner/Department of Health, Education and Welfare)Virginia Norwood, a pioneering aerospace engineer who used design innovations, emerging technologies and seasoned intuition in projects that scanned the lunar surface for safe Apollo landing sites and mapped the Earth from space with digital imagery never before seen, died March 26 at her home in Topanga, Calif.
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