Bill Taub Dies

Bill Taub, 86, a self-taught NASA photographer who documented the country's major aeronautics and space-flight events from 1958 to 1975, including the missions that sent the first men into orbit and onto the moon, died Feb. 20 at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham. He had pneumonia and multiple organ failure.

Though he was rarely credited by name, Mr. Taub took nearly every official picture of the astronauts who led the nation's early forays into space and played a central role in shaping public perception of NASA's work.

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In addition to his daughter, of Elkridge, survivors include his wife of 63 years, the former Nadine Ayers, of Bowie; and two brothers, Fred Taub of Mitchellville and Don Taub of Huntington Beach, Calif.

Rest In Peace, Bill.