Byron Morgan; Filmed Stirring NASA Documentaries

After the war, Mr. Morgan graduated from what is now Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and considered becoming a Jesuit priest. He wrote a play about his imprisonment in Siberia, "October Days," which was produced in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore.

In the early 1950s, Mr. Morgan made a documentary about Iran. He received a master's degree in drama from UCLA in 1955, then returned to Washington. He lived in Chevy Chase and later in Bethesda until 1985.

In addition to his NASA films, Mr. Morgan made more than 150 other documentaries, training films and television shows for the Army, State Department, U.S. Information Agency, U.S. Forest Service, colleges and Maryland Public Television.

He was a technical adviser on the 1983 feature film "The Right Stuff" and retired from NASA two years later. He moved to California and was a consultant on James Michener's miniseries "Space" in 1985. In the late 1980s, he made a series of four films for the Army about life in Korea.

Mr. Morgan was strongly influenced by his Jesuit training and visited El Salvador with a human rights group after three American nuns and a female lay worker were kidnapped and killed in 1980. He was a member, successively, of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Washington, St. Jane Frances de Chantal in Bethesda and St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville.

His marriage to Patricia McLaughlin ended in divorce.

In addition to his son, of Los Angeles, survivors include his second wife, Dell Morgan of Long Beach; seven children from his first marriage, Melissa Morgan of Toronto, Marya Morgan of Cape May, N.J., Patricia Hall-Tipping of Rowayton, Conn., Heather Hackett of Sterling, Laura Capaccio of Staunton, Va., Byron Morgan Jr. of Annapolis and Peter Morgan of San Francisco; two stepchildren, Mark Chumley of Santa Monica, Calif., and Jonathan Chumley of Indianapolis; 10 grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.