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Barbree, NBCs veteran space correspondent and the only reporter who has covered every mission flown by astronauts, offers an engaging, behind-the-scenes account of Americas 50 years in space. Illustrated.

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This man knows more about space than anyone I know. --Tom Brokaw Jay Barbree of NBC News is arguably the best correspondent to ever cover the space program. --Larry King, USA Today

This man knows more about space than anyone I know. -- Tom Brokaw

"""A candid, first-person view of the U.S. program's first 50 years...with the wide-eyed excitement of a moon-bound astronaut.""--Entertainment Weekly ""Fast-paced, readable account...[Barbree] delights in telling two kinds of astronaut tales: pranks and heroics.""--St. Petersburg Times ""Jay Barbree of NBC News is arguably the best correspondent to ever cover the space program.""--Larry King, USA Today ""This man knows more about space than anyone I know.""--Tom Brokaw ""Live from Cape Canaveral takes you behind the scenes through triumphs and tragedies, in great and unique detail.""--John Glenn, First American Astronaut in Orbit ""Entertaining and candid...with anecdotes worthy of The Right Stuff.""--BookPage ""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"

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

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