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He didnt want a biography. He wanted a story of his life of flight. He failed anything that he did any of the astronauts could have done so he wanted them to get equal credit. He was that type of a guy. He never thought of himself as being anything special but he wanted the story of flight told him we were going to do it and when he passed away we had already worked one chapter out and i decided to go ahead because and do the flight because people suddenly they made sense. I looked around mike and all the people from a poll of practically all of them are gone. We have to realize that over half the people on the planet werent even here when he walked on the moon. The other asked it not said jay if you dont do it who else is going to do a quicks jim calls it a great book and adds to neils legacy. We did our level best to try to get this done for the history. We have had a heavy Library Event sale so thats great. We were trying to get neils story in a library for history and hopefully we
Associate director at the air and space museum. This week veteran space correspondent jay barbree and his latest book Neil Armstrong a life in flight. And at the nbc news man and a bestselling author examined the life of the first man to walk on the moon on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. The program is about an hour im a curator at the museum here to talk to the author of Neil Armstrongs life in flight a new biography of Neil Armstrong. Im very familiar because he was a voice on the radio and a face on tv in my years as a space buff in the 1960s it was nice to talk with you today. Why did you decide to write this book . We talked about it for about 20 years because we had a close friend for half a century and i wrote a book with alan shepard which did well in the New York Times best seller list and he did the introduction of that. So we had to talk to because he didnt want a biography. He wanted the story of his life and flight and he felt like anything that he did commit an
Those are nasa engineers over there and this was the world that was normal to them and that the wives tried very hard to keep normal and grounded. You kind of alluded to how much the wives seem to change after the Apollo Program and i was wondering if you could share some of the astronauts of the wives thoughts on what was it like when that ended and did they feel like it should continue and almost is there almost is there a sense of ptsd among the families . Yeah, i think everyone is pretty sad when nixon ended the Apollo Program and these wives kyc today and i think in history they will continue to be seen. Ive told this to them as sort of our pioneer space women. They were the pioneers. Their husbands were doing something we had never done before. You know, just the surreal moments of going out in your backyard as jane conrad remember to me when her husband was up there on apollo 12 Walking Around the moon and a house that just cleared out. She had all the wives over for a party. It
Like you and me just yelling at each other. At talking. What draws an audience is when, in fact, we disagree. When, in fact, we get nasty with one another. What Rupert Murdochs demonstrated is that there really was a hunger in america for something that was less liberal than what the networks for putting on the air. So, fox news was born. Fox news has been hugely successful. It earns somewhere between 1. 10 0. 50 billion a year. 1 and 1. 5 billion a year. The folks at nbc took a look at what fox has been doing and figure out if they could make news skewing news to the right, if we could make half of that, lets ask you to the left. And so, you have on Cable Television news that caters to people who consider themselves progressives, news to people who consider themselves conservatives, you have the afternoon radio talk shows, the evening radio talk shows which cater largely to the conservative. You have the latenight comedy show, john stewart, stephen cole there, that tend to cater more