Jay Barbree has been a correspondent for NBC News for over 53 years as of 2014, primarily covering the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), the United States space program. He has specifically focused on manned space travel. He is the only journalist of any kind, from any medium, to have covered every single manned space mission in and from United States territory, from the very first American manned space shot, and the second human being in space overall, that being 'Alan Shepard (I)' aboard Freedom 7 on May 6, 1961. He has continued to cover NASA and manned space flights to and through the last launch and mission of the Space Shuttle program, Atlantis's STS-135, From July 8 through July 21, 2011. Barbree has been present for all manned Mercury launches, all Gemini launches, all Apollo launches, and all 135 space shuttle launches, comprising, in total, in person reporting on 166 United States manned space launches, plus many other unmanned space launches. Now over age 80, Barbree continues part time as a correspondent for NBC News, most recently appearing on the July 25, 2014 episode of The Daily Rundown (2010) with Chuck Todd to discuss the 45th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing mission, and again on the August 26, 2014 episode, from the studios of NBC affiliate WESH-TV to discuss Chuck leaving "The Daily Rundown" to move to Meet the Press (1947) and all of Jay's appearances on "Meet The Press" and to give Chuck a good send off. Additionally, Barbree has written or co-written seven books, and many, many newspaper and magazine articles, almost all about NASA or space issues. Show less «