David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. Ignatius has written 12 spy novels: “Phantom Orbit” (2024), “The Paladin” (2020), “The Quantum Spy ...

Maintaining that delicate balance all the way to orbit is exceptionally difficult ... In any event, while the XS-1 Phantom Express will likely go down as yet another in a long line of “paper ...