DAVID ARIOSTO is a seasoned journalist, space industry analyst, and co-host of the podcast Space Minds on SpaceNews. He is also a columnist at Aerospace America, SpaceNews, and Noema Magazine and a visiting scholar at Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative. His debut book, This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro’s Shadow, was published in 2018 by St. Martin’s Press and was highly acclaimed by The Washington Post and USA Today. He resides in Arizona with his daughter, Rosie, and their dog, Cali.
