Would you buy a meteorite from this man?

Well, yes, actually, I did. Last weekend I spoke at the Arizona Science & Astronomy Expo in Tucson, where I had a chance to meet a truly mind-blowing group of astronomers, explorers and fellow journalists. A major highlight of the event for me was acquiring my...

Inventables and the next industrial revolution

Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables tells me he sees the day coming when the world will go from perhaps 2,000 major manufactures to 2 million. Actually, the whole idea of “major manufacturer” will change completely. Instead of just a few big players dominating...

Air & Space: The Lynx’s Leap

The November issue of Air & Space Smithsonian has my feature story on XCOR Aerospace and its Lynx suborbital spaceship in the making. I’d been angling for a feature on XCOR, somewhere, for years. The company is one of the unsung success stories of the...