Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub
Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub Featuring more than 600 photos, Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of…
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Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub
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. 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. Previous Project Mercury books largely have relied on the relatively limited number of photos released by NASA.
As a result, his photos provide a unique and intimate behind-the-scenes look at the people and operations of Project Mercury in real time.Drawing on Taub's recently discovered archive of thousands of black-and-white and color prints, slides, and transparencies, this is the first book to comprehensively Taub went everywhere with the Mercury astronauts, capturing their daily activities from 1959 to 1963.