Peter Cosgrove, photographer of more than 100 space shuttle launches, is dead at 84 | CBC News

A former Associated Press photographer in Florida who covered more than 100 space shuttle launches, the Elian Gonzalez saga and the presidential recount has died.

Peter Cosgrove died of a heart attack in his sleep on Saturday in Orlando, Fla., at age 84.

During a journalism career that spanned almost 50 years, the last eight as a staffer with The Associated Press, Cosgrove covered former president Richard Nixon's meeting with South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu at Midway and four Apollo moon-mission crew recoveries at sea.