Recently by Miles O'Brien
Ride, Sally Ride: My Dinner with the First American Woman in Space
July 24, 2012 | Pictured at the opening of the Challenger Learning Center in Atlanta on January 28, 2003: Cheryl McNair, June Scobee Rodgers, Sally Ride and Miles O'Brien. Photo by Ted Pio-roda/CNN. On January 28, 2003, I was sitting on top of...
Miles O'Brien on SpaceX Launch: Space for the Rest of Us
May 22, 2012 | Courtesy: NASA Updated 2:10 p.m. ET Space is hard and unforgiving and there is still a lot of challenging work ahead for the SpaceX Dragon team. I would not pop the champagne corks just yet. But this is a...
Spirit No More: NASA Bids Mars Rover a Final Goodbye
May 27, 2011 | It was a cold night in Pasadena when NASA's rover Spirit landed on Mars. But if tension could generate heat, we would have been perspiring. On a good day, getting to Mars is a crapshoot. Over the years, only...
Miles O'Brien: Cracks in the System at Southwest
April 4, 2011 | If you have ever unwound and bent a paper clip to and fro until it snapped, you understand the concept behind metal fatigue. Railroad engineers in the late 19th century were the first to recognize the problem. As NASA's...
If a Boy Scout Can Get Nuclear Materials, What's Stopping Terrorists?
February 8, 2011 | DetectFlashDecision_Blog; Back in the days when we thought a "dirty bomb" might be a raunchy joke gone awry, young David Hahn was gathering all the radioactive material he could get his hands on. But he came in...
Remembering the Challenger Disaster: The Big 'Y'
January 28, 2011 | All seven crew members were killed when the Challenger shuttle exploded during take-off on Jan. 28, 1986. I was fast asleep when the Challenger exploded. It was almost high noon - but I had turned in only about three...
Avoiding Eruptions - While Covering Them
December 13, 2010 | It took a long time and a lot of persistence to get to the summit of the most active volcano in Indonesia. The trip down came quicker - and went faster than I would have liked. Clearly, I lived...
Robot Butlers and Jet Packs: How Close Are We Really?
November 15, 2010 | A man with a jetpack makes a spectacular landing before Super Bowl I in 1967 at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. Photo by Vic Stein/NFL I will confess right up front that I wasted a lot of time...
