NASA remembers Photographer Bill Taub (1923-2010)

"I had the privilege to be there to record it. I made sure I recorded it to the best of my ability because I have a sense of history," - Bill Taub

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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.

Washington Times "NASA photographer Bill Taub dies at 86"