Miles O’Brien Biography
Miles O’Brien is an American journalist working as the national scientific correspondent for PBS NewsHour. He is an independent American broadcast news journalist specializing in science, technology, and aerospace.
Miles O’Brien Age
O’Brien is 62 years old as of 2021. He was born on June 9, 1959, in Detroit and raised in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.
Miles O’Brien Height
O’Brien stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73m).
Miles O’Brien Family
O’Brien is a general aviation pilot in his third generation. His father, a private pilot, instilled in him a love of flying from a young age. His father rented modest Cessnas and Pipers for his initial flights. Both of O’Brien’s grandfathers, paternal and maternal, were pilots.
Miles O’Brien Wife
O’Brien is married. The couple has two children; Molly O’Brien; Kirayoshi O’Brien. They reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Miles O’Brien Accident
O’Brien was injured in February 2014 when a Pelican box containing television equipment fell on his left forearm, causing acute compartment syndrome and the amputation of his left arm above the elbow.
Miles O’Brien Salary
O’Brien has been very secretive with his annual pay scale as of now, 2021. However, there is no doubt that he has been accustomed to good pay in terms of salary as he has been able to work with profound films. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same from our trusted sources.
Miles O’Brien Net Worth
O’Brien has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Miles O’Brien CNN
O’Brien worked as a science, space, aviation technology, and environment journalist for CNN in Atlanta and New York. Science and Technology Week, Headline News, Primetime, Live From…(CNN), and CNN American Morning were among the shows he hosted.
For CNN, O’Brien covered all aspects of the US space program, including reports on the Hubble Space Telescope, shuttle dockings at Mir, the first space station launch from Kazakhstan, landings on Mars, the Ansari X-Prize, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and its crew, which he told the world in a 16-hour live coverage marathon.
NASA had inked an agreement with CNN after years of discussions that would have made O’Brien the first journalist to go on a space shuttle if not for the catastrophe. O’Brien kept track of the investigation and his safe return to the skies. In 2000, O’Brien produced, photographed, and scripted “Terminal Count: What It Takes to Make the Space Shuttle Fly,” a one-hour documentary about the process of preparing a space shuttle for flight, which premiered in May 2001.
Since 1988, O’Brien has been a private pilot and has covered civil aviation issues and crash investigations extensively. While the twin towers were still standing after the September 11 attacks, O’Brien presented viewers with radar traces of the hijacked flights. US Airways Flight 427, ValuJet 592, TWA 800, EgyptAir 990, American Airlines 587, Comair 5191, John F. Kennedy Jr., Payne Stewart, Paul Wellstone, and the Cory Lidle disaster in Manhattan were among the plane crashes he covered. During the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, he and other retired generals reported on military aviation tactics and strategy. He covered the terrorist attack on the Oberoi Trident and Taj Mahal hotels in Mumbai, as well as various other sites, for non-aerospace themes. He left CNN in December 2008 and returned in March 2014 as an aviation commentator.
In 2009, O’Brien began blogging for “True/Slant” and later became a science correspondent for the National Science Foundation’s “Science Nation” series. On the one-year anniversary of the Colgan Air plane disaster in Buffalo, NY, he worked on the PBS Frontline documentary “Flying Cheap.” In 2014, he produced and presented “Why Planes Vanish” for PBS’ Nova, which was adapted from the BBC’s Horizon episode “Where is Flight MH370?”
Miles O’Brien Affiliations
The Challenger Center for Space Science Education, the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, LessCancer.org, and the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation are all on O’Brien’s board of directors. O’Brien served as chairman of the NASA Advisory Council’s Education and Outreach Committee from 2009 to 2011, advising the NASA Administrator on mass communication techniques. In April 2014, he returned to the NAC to advise NASA’s senior leadership on the challenges and solutions the organization faces as it enters a new era of exploration.
He is a member of the Writers’ Guild of America, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Experimental Aircraft Association. O’Brien joined the Amputee Coalition’s Board of Directors in 2014.
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