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About My Father. My father, William Paul Taub (Bill), was the first Senior NASA photographer. Through his technical and artistic skills, he captured the crowning major aeronautics and space flight achievements during his employment beginning in 1942 at NACA, Langley Field, VA to his retirement in 1975 from NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
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Bill passed away in 2010 in Bowie, Md. at age 86. Our new book, “America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub,” draws from his personal archives to showcase some 600 of Bill’s never-before-seen Mercury photos. They provide a unique behind-the-scenes look at the people and operations of the first US manned ...
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Taub, NASA’s first photographer, by then knew that he was photographing America’s first astronaut. NASA Senior photographer Bill Taub on a ladder at Edwards Air Force Base in July 1963, next ...
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Mar 1, 2024 · William “Bill” P. Taub was the deputy chief, audio visual division and senior NASA photographer documenting the major programs of both the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from Jan. 3, 1942 to Jan. 5, 1975. Taub began his NACA career at the Langley Research Center and ...
May 15, 2023 · NASA Staff photographer Bill Taub saw it all through the lens of his camera, and now the reading public can too. Authors John Bisney and J. L. Pickering answered a few questions about their new book, Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub , which has been well-received with reviews in Forbes ...
May 3, 2023 · Photo historian J.L. Pickering and journalist John Bisney uncover that unseen legacy in "Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub," as published by Purdue University Press on Monday (May 1). "I had corresponded with Bill regularly in the 1990s, and John and I visited him in retirement," said ...
Apr 24, 2023 · Featuring more than 600 photos, Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub is the most complete photographic account of Project Mercury ever published. Previous Project Mercury books largely have relied on the relatively limited number of photos released by NASA.
