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    "Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
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    "Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today

    By Jay Barbree

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    “From Sputnik to the International Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. ‘Live from Cape Canaveral’ encapsulates the most technically exciting half century in history.” –Neil Armstrong

    Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled as often as they soared. In "Live from Cape Canaveral," Barbree—the only reporter who has covered every mission flown by astronauts—offers his unique perspective on the space program. He shares affectionate portraits of astronauts as well as some of his fellow journalists and tells some very funny behind-the-scenes stories—many involving astronaut pranks. Barbree also shows how much the space program and its press coverage have changed over time. Warm and perceptive, he reminds us just how thrilling the great moments of the space race were and why America fell in love with its heroic, sometimes larger-than-life astronauts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061735899
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    "Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
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    Jay Barbree

    <p>Jay Barbree, seen left reporting live from the launch of Gemini 6 in December 1965, has covered the space race since <em>Sputnik</em> as a correspondent for NBC. The NBC space unit won an Emmy for its coverage of the first <em>Apollo</em> moon landing. Barbree also broke the world news exclusive on the cause of the <em>Challenger</em> explosion. The coauthor of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Moon Shot</em>, he lives near Cape Canaveral.</p>

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      Space flight is mankind's greatest adventure, and Jay Barbree has been there for all ot it. He started covering space-related stories shortly after Sputnik was launched, and has not stopped yet.He conveys beautifully the beauty, mystery, and wonder; the pranks, the engineering successes and failures, and the tragedies. The saddest part of the whole book is that none of the three tragedies - the Apollo 1 fire and the two lost shuttles - was inevitable. They could have been prevented. Prior to the Apollo 1 fire in which Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chafee died, Grissom came to Barbree and asked for help. He said the contracts for the Apollo components had been given to cronies, and the items they were producing were of poor quality. Barbree tried to persuade NBC to cover the story of the poor quality, but the higher ups didn't want to do so. As for the two shuttle explosions, fears were raised in both instances about exactly the things that went wrong, but in both cases it was decided the flaws weren't serious enough to stop the flights.Barbree also conveys the joys of space flght, and a sense of some of the personalities involved. His admiration for the astronauts and others who work with them is clear. Barbree doesn't expect to be around when humankind lands on Mars, but if he is, he'll happily cover the story!