page_title: Miles O'Brien (journalist)
section_title: Affiliations
hierarchical_section_title: Miles O'Brien (journalist) / Affiliations
caption_attribution_description: English: Miles O'Brien (journalist) was Space Communicator Award presenter at the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation Annual Banquet on April 26, 2013 at the Houston Hyatt Regency. NASA photo #jsce063323.
context_page_description: Miles O'Brien is an independent American broadcast news journalist specializing in science, technology, and aerospace who has been serving as national science correspondent for PBS NewsHour since 2010.
context_section_description: O'Brien is on the boards of 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.
  From 2009 to 2011, O'Brien served as chairman of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC)'s Education and Outreach Committee and advised the NASA Administrator on mass communication strategies. He rejoined the NAC  in April 2014 to advise NASA's senior leadership on challenges and solutions facing the agency as it unfolds a new era of exploration.
  He is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (since 1988), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (since 1982), the Experimental Aircraft Association (since 2007), and the Writers’ Guild of America (since 2011).
  In 2014, O'Brien joined the Board of the Amputee Coalition.
caption: Miles O'Brien at 2013 RNASA gala
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