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As NASA's first senior photographer, Bill Taub covered every major agency event from the beginning of the Mercury project through the end of Apollo, giving the public a firsthand look at what NASA was about during those early days. Bill Taub died on Feb. 20, 2010. He was 86 years old. Credit: NASA
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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.
In the early days of U.S. human spaceflight, William Paul Taub was like the local newspaper photographer in a small town that suddenly became the center of the universe.
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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.
May 15, 2023 · Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut to travel into space on May 5, 1961, and Gordon Cooper’s 34-hour Mercury-Atlas 9 spaceflight became the concluding Mercury mission sixty years ago today (May 15). NASA Staff photographer Bill Taub saw it all through the lens of his camera, and now the reading public can too.
Apr 24, 2023 · This book, however, showcases hundreds of never-before-seen images of America’s first manned space program by NASA’s first staff photographer, Bill Taub. Taub went everywhere with the Mercury astronauts, capturing their daily activities from 1959 to 1963.
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