I first met Katherine Mangu-Ward at a debate on bioethics in DC a year and a half ago. She was working for the New York Times, as a research assistant for (closet libertarian) John Tierney.

I next saw her in Las Vegas, last summer, at the Space Frontier Conference. She was working on a space piece for Reason, for whom she has apparently left the Gray Lady and gone to work as an associate editor. She’s finished the piece, and it came out pretty well, other than that COTS isn’t a prize, and SpaceX and RpK are competing, not cooperating.