Editor-in-Chief
Brian Berger is SpaceNews editor-in-chief, responsible for all SpaceNews editorial products, including SpaceNews.com and the biweekly magazine.
He joined SpaceNews in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. His reporting on the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident was recognized with an Online News Association award for breaking news.
He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until becoming SpaceNews deputy editor in 2008.
Brian earned a bachelor's degree in magazine production and editing from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
On Sept. 18, 1989, SpaceNews published the first of four monthly preview issues to test the waters for a trade publication focused exclusively on space. Thirty years later, we’re still here covering the business and politics of a greatly expanded global space community.
Investigators think Vega’s failure originated in the forward dome area of the Zefiro-23, the second of three solid-fueled stages the rocket expends to deliver satellites to orbit.
