"This Week in Space" with Miles O'Brien Debuts

By Nancy Atkinson - December 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM UTC | Site News

This Week In Space from Spaceflight Now on Vimeo.

The same team that recently has been providing innovative live online coverage of space shuttle launches is now "airing" a weekly space news round-up show. "This Week in Space" is hosted by former CNN anchor and space correspondent Miles O'Brien. It also features veteran journalist David Waters, and is brought to you via

Spaceflightnow.com

.

I had the chance to chat with Miles briefly a while ago, and asked him if this was the type of space coverage he had always wanted to do. He said, "Yes, definitely! I am enjoying this immensely." His enthusiasm is obvious in this new online show.

Over the weekend, media consultant

Bill Salvin wrote an article

about why he thinks TWIS and other types of online "microcasts" will be successful, especially as mainstream news coverage of space seems to be declining.

"This Week in Space" is looking for feedback on their show. If you want to contact them, email them at

[email protected]

. You can also follow them on

Twitter

.

You can also watch TWIS on their

You Tube channel

, or on

Vimeo.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com