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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight

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Neil Armstrong: A Life of FlightMuch has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil's life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend Jay Barbree. Working from 50 years of conversations he had with Neil, from notes, interviews, NASA

Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil's life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend - Jay Barbree.

Working from 50 years of conversations he had with Neil, from notes, interviews, NASA spaceflight transcripts, and remembrances of those Armstrong trusted, Barbree writes about Neil's three passions - flight, family, and friends. This is the inside story of Neil Armstrong from the time he flew combat missions in the Korean War and then flew a rocket plane called the X-15 to the edge of space, to when he saved his Gemini 8 by flying the first emergency return from Earth orbit and then flew Apollo-Eleven to the moon's Sea of Tranquility.

Together Neil and Jay discussed everything, from his love of flying, to the war years, and of course his time in space. The book is full of never-before-seen photos and personal details written down for the first time, including what Armstrong really felt when he took that first step on the moon, what life in NASA was like, his relationships with the other astronauts, and what he felt the future of space exploration should be.

As the only reporter to have covered all 166 American astronaut flights and moon landings Jay knows these events intimately. Neil Armstrong himself said, "Barbree is history's most experienced space journalist. He is exceptionally well qualified to recall and write the events and emotions of our time." Through his friendship with Neil and his dedicated research, Barbree brings us the most accurate account of his friend's life of flight, the book he planned for twenty years.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 06/09/2015
ISBN: 9781250040725
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d
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If you're looking at this, you know why you're looking at it, so not going to explain. It is good. 130 or so pages and most of it is commands that are useful for your run books. The book doesn't explain how to interpret the results, but if you can understand it and are comfortable on a shell, you can probably hazard a guess anyways, or Google it. A small amount of the commands are a tiny bit dated, which is expected with a print manual giving you commands for applications/OSes that are always changing, but even if dated, they at least give you the idea of what to run. Just go look up a good replacement application, or check the --help file for updated syntax. Really liked the IR checklist at the back, will incorporate some of that.
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Great reference guide for all cybersecurity professionals
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I have both the blue team manual and red team that I carry with me for work in cause I need quick reference. No downsides to this book.
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Its a book!
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Obviously, comparable to RTFM, marketed as more geared to responders, or Windows domain admins with a small amount of Linux in their network. My review assumes you know what the book you are shopping for is, you have read or heard about the RTFM and this. Awesome book, you'll likely find or be reminded of something very useful that you can use tomorrow based on flipping through it. Good - What you'd expect, condensed, long listing of commands with brief descriptions. Network, firewall, registry, services, etc etc etc. Command based AV scanning and lots more. Lots of stuff is based on "Basic" commands included in powershell or windows cmd, additional tools sysinternals suite, some typical third party network command tools, as well a few references to less common tools. Eh - Frighteningly short intros to some tools, but for brevity's sake seems necessary, I'd suggest readers try everything in a lab. Bad - Many commands are described from a very basic idea gearing up to fairly complex, complete, long commands, with lots of big font and double spacing. Little to zero instruction is provided for some stuff, for example, the reg query commands, which you can read and see what they do or are for. Lots of lines go to nearly the exact same command (like firewall rules), I feel like they'ed be better if they had more context. The font is bigger (than RTFM), I'd like it if the book made more use of tables, bolding and underlining, and italicizing do differentiate sections of text, along with a smaller font and no double-spacing. I feel like this just adds to the girth of the book. All in all, great book, I definitely recommend it for network or domain admins and defenders.
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