NBC Space Correspondent Jay Barbree's MOON SHOT

Jay Barbree has covered human spaceflight for its entire fifty year history. His bestselling book, written with Mercury 7 astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, has just been reissued as an enhanced ebook. Emily Lakdawalla looks ahead at solar system exploration. Bill Nye reports on the conference of the Alliance for Earth Observation. Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan look for major appliances in the sky as they give away a copy of Jay Barbree's book, MOON SHOT, in the new space trivia contest.

Related Links:

• MOON SHOT
• Bill Nye at Alliance for Earth Observation and with Senator Barbara Mikulski
• What's Up in the Solar System in July 2011
• In Focus Space Shuttle Photography Retrospective
• Bill Nye's Your Place in Space (MP3)