'I Don't Know How We Didn't ... Kill Three People'

Disturbing new revelations about Virgin Galactic

Todd Ericson

Nicholas Schmidle, a writer for The New Yorker, spent “more than four years … embedded inside” Virgin Galactic, New Mexico’s “partner” in the “business” of suborbital tourism.

What he learned is not likely to please the men and women who paid for Spaceport America.

The Washington Post obtained an advance copy of Schmidle’s book Test Gods: Virg…