Summary: <p>Nicholas Schmidle's story for the August 20 issue of <em>The New Yorker </em>is titled “Rocket Man: The ace pilot leading Virgin Galactic's billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality” (online: "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/20/virgin-galactics-rocket-man">Virgin Galactic's Rocket Man</a>"). Schmidle reports on Virgin Galactic, the company owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, which is in a space race with Blue Origin owned by Jeff Bezos and SpaceX owned by Elon Musk to be the first to bring commercial space travel to market. </p> <p><em>This segment is guest hosted by Beth Fertig.</em></p> <p> </p>
