Leon Kosofsky
Leon J. Kosofsky, NASA Engineer
“Leon J. Kosofsky, 88, a retired NASA photogrammetric engineer who created detailed maps of the moon’s surface, died Oct. 10 at his home in Bethesda. He had melanoma. Mr. Kosofsky joined the space agency in the early 1960s. As a project engineer for the Lunar Orbiter program of unmanned photographic satellites, he created maps of the moon to help locate places for manned missions to land.”
