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[close] "I've covered every launch of American astronauts, beginning with Alan Shepard's flight May 5, 1961," says Jay Barbree, who has been NBC’s space correspondent since the birth of NASA.

Together with astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, Barbree wrote Moon Shot, the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration. When the space race began, NASA put together a crew of the nation’s most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA’s effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century’s greatest feat—landing humans on another world.