Ramin Skibba is WIRED’s space writer, where he covers the vastest beat, including space scientists, space environmentalists, space politics, space conflicts, and the space industry, from launch to reentry. Prior to joining WIRED, he freelanced for Scientific American, The Atlantic, Undark magazine, Slate, and other magazines, and before that, he explored the cosmos himself as an astrophysicist and he earned a master’s degree in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s based in the Bay Area.