nbc's own jay barbree covered that moment along with all of the other 165 astronaut flights and landings written a new book with fascinating new details from inside the space program called "neil armstrong, a life of flight." the author and long time nbc news correspondent and maybe my favorite colleague here at nbc, jay barbree joins me. jay, i think about all the other astronauts and many of them are larger than life figures. they went on to do other things larger than life. some of them are famous television commercial guys. but neil arguably speaking the most famous sentence in the 20th century. he really was a reserved guy. >> yeah, he never i ingratiated himself. he was happy living on his dairy farm. if his family was fed, clothed, everybody was generally happy, that's about all neil wanted. he enjoyed life of a small town. it was a little town of 6,000 population. i was born in a town of 5,000 population. john after his passing, he said jay, you need to write this book. john just turned 93, the rest of the apollo astronauts are in their 80s. we all realized that we're in god's wa

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them [applause] >> host: i am michael neufeld a curator at the air and space pusey and talking to jay barbree author of "neil armstrong" a life of flight" a biography of neil armstrong. i am a familiar with the boys on the radio and it is nice to talk to you today. what made you write this book? >> we talked about it for about 20 years we were pretty close friends for half the century and moonshot did well in the deere times best-seller list and he did the introduction of that he did not want a biography but a story of his life of late and felts anything he did or any other astronauts could do especially jim will floor he wanted them to get equal credit he never thought of himself being special but when he passed away we already had one chapter out i decided to go ahead to do it because people looked at me and suddenly they made sense i've looked around and all the people from apollo are gone and we have to realize over half the people on the plan that were not even here. eddie won less than 45 years old so low they said to me if you don't choose since you will? we need his story sewed jim as

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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 best-selling 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 >> i'm a curator at the museum here to talk to the author of neil armstrong's life in flight a new biography of neil armstrong. i'm 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 didn't want a biography. he wanted the story of his life and flight and he felt like anything that he did commit any of the other astronauts could do especially tom stafford so he wanted them to get equal credit. he was that type of guy he never though