Craig Covault

Contributing Writer

Craig is a former contributing writer for Space.com in the areas of technology, comet and asteroid missions, human spaceflight, and private spaceflight. Now retired, he spent more than 40 years as an international science and space writer. Craig mainly wrote and reported for Aviation Week & Space Technology for the majority of his award-winning career, which lasted 48 years from 1969 to 2017. He also contributed to Aerospace America, Spaceflight Now and AmericaSpace, penning nearly 2,000 news and feature stories on space and aeronautics, and covering roughly 100 space shuttle launches.

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