Jay Barbree

In the course of his fifty-five-year career with NBC News, Jay Barbree is the only reporter to have covered all 166 American astronaut flights and moon landings. He received an Emmy Award for his coverage of Neil Armstrong's first walk on the moon, broke the cause of the Challenger accident, and still covers space for NBC's TV networks and NBCnews.com. He was also the lead writer for the New York Times bestseller Moon Shot coauthored with astronauts Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, and Neil Armstrong.