Saturday, March 4, 2017

Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree

Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree (2014). Barbree has been an NBC News space correspondent for many years and a pilot in his own right. Barbree was a close friend of Armstrong and writes out of 50 years of conversations. Considering Armstrong's quiet and soft-spoken manner, I expect it would be impossible to find a more intimate and straightforward of account of the life and times of this U.S. Navy aviator, veteran of the Korean War, test pilot, X-15 pilot, professor of aerospace engineering, and the first human to walk on the moon.

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