Jay Barbree (1933-2021)

Jay Barbree (1933-2021)
Jay Barbree
BIRTH 26 Nov 1933
Georgia, USA
DEATH 14 May 2021 (aged 87)
Florida, USA
BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
American Correspondent Television News Journalist

He was best known for his NBC News reporting of every manned space mission in the United States from 1958 to 2011. He joined the United States Air Force in 1950 and after serving in the military for several years, went into local broadcasting journalism.

In 1957, he began covering NASA when the space agency was struggling with a series of humiliating rocket explosions. In 1958, he joined NBC News and began a storied career that would span 61 years. He went on to cover every human space mission to leave U.S. soil, beginning with Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 flight in 1961, until the last space shuttle mission in 2011.

During his career, he covered 166 human spaceflight missions. He was a part of the NBC News Space Unit that won an Emmy award for the network’s coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. He was also the first journalist to report on the source of the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

He also authored several books focusing on NASA and the space race, including “Moon Shot” and “Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race from Sputnik to Today.”

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Jay Barbree (1933-2021)

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