Leonard David

Leonard David is a veteran U.S. space journalist who has covered civil and military space, planetary science, and astrobiology for several decades. He runs the Inside Outer Space column at leonarddavid.com and is a long-time contributor to SPACE.com, Aerospace America, and Scientific American. His tone is straight-ahead aerospace-trade reportage — neutral, primary-source-quoting, restrained on speculation.

Coverage in this vault

• src-leonard-david-pursue-column-2026-05 — Same-day column on the May 8, 2026 pursue launch quoting pete-hegseth and jared-isaacman, surfacing the gemini-7 Borman bogey transcript, the apollo-12 five-Areas photo, and apollo-17 Cernan/Schmitt accounts; flags Enigma Labs mirror at pentagonufofiles.io.

Related

• brandi-vincent · micah-hanks · joseph-trevithick (other defense/space-beat reporters in this vault)
• pursue · pursue-release-01-catalog
• gemini-7 · apollo-12 · apollo-17