Wilson da Silva is the editor of COSMOS, Australia's #1 science magazine. A former on-air science reporter for Australia’s ABC TV, he’s been a foreign correspondent for Reuters, science editor of ABC Online and a staff journalist on The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. The winner of 23 awards - including twice Editor of the Year for his work on COSMOS - he is a member of the board of the World Federation of Science Journalists and its immediate past president. He will be among the first 100 passengers on Virgin Galactic's spaceliner service in 2010.