You’re Never Going to Space (Playboy Magazine, March 2015)

Let’s be frank: Contemporary space travel is sexy. It’s dangerous, alluring and dominated by dashing billionaires, from Tesla’s Elon Musk to Virgin’s Richard Branson to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos (okay, Bezos isn’t as dashing). These men have promised to build lavish spacecraft and open the heavens for the paying masses. But the truth is, you’ll probably never leave this atmosphere.