The house has many features the engineer added, mostly on weekends while working full-time at Hughes Aircraft Company.
The longtime Topanga home of aerospace engineer Virginia T. Norwood, on 1.68 acres near Red Rock Park, is on sale for $2.25 million. The open-plan living space off the kitchen. The kitchen in the one-bedroom guest house.
Norwood, who died in March 2023 at 96, was the only woman among roughly 2,700 men in Hughes Aircraft Co.’s research and development labs, according to the. She developed the groundbreaking Multispectral Scanner for mapping Earth’s land surface from satellites in orbit as part of NASA and United States Geological Survey’s joint Landsat program. The invention earned Norwood the moniker “the mother of Landsat.
The natural area suited her love of birdwatching. Each morning, rain or shine, started with filling the many bird feeders, turning on the fountain and sipping coffee on the covered portion of the brick patio, with binoculars in hand.
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