Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Airbus Distinguished Visitor - Class of Spring 2021
Nicholas Schmidle writes for the New Yorker and is the author of To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, and many others.
Schmidle has been a National Magazine Award finalist, a two-time Livingston Award finalist, and winner of a Kurt Schork Award. He is a former fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs, the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and resident at the Rockefeller’s Foundation’s Bellagio Center. In 2017, Schmidle was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
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Mar
21
ONLINE: Airbus Lecture
Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
Nicholas Schmidle takes a closer look at the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic’s campaign to build a space tourism company.
18
Mar
21
Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
In October 2014, a 38-year-old test pilot was killed when his private spaceship crashed in the California desert. Prompted by this tragic event, Nicholas Schmidle spent the next four years embedded with Virgin Galactic, the company that owned the craft. In this lecture, Schmidle discussed his report ...