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Amy Shira Teitel

Amy Shira Teitel

American-Canadian popular science writer

Amy Shira Teitel is a Canadian[2][3] author, popular science writer, historian,[4] and YouTuber.

Quick Facts Born, Nationality ...

Career

Writer

Amy Shira Teitel is a native of Toronto.[5] She has written for The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Discovery News, Scientific American, Ars Technica, and Al Jazeera English.[6][7]

Teitel's first book was based on research for her master's degree thesis. Breaking the Chains of Gravity (2015) tells the story of America's nascent space program.[8][9] The book describes the early pioneers of rockets in the late 1920s, up to the formation of NASA.[10]

Teitel's Fighting for Space (2020) is a dual biography of female pilots Jacqueline Cochran and Jerrie Cobb.[11][12]

Video and other media

In 2012, Teitel created the YouTube channel, The Vintage Space,[13] in which she delves into the early history of space flight. The channel was last active on January 13, 2022.

Teitel was a co-host for the Discovery Channel's online DNews channel, which later became Seeker.[14] She has also appeared on Ancient Aliens, NASA's Unexplained Files, and other cable documentary shows.[15]

Bibliography

  • Teitel, Amy Shira (2015). Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA. London: Bloomsbury Sigma. ISBN 978-1-4729-1119-3. OCLC 926935409.
  • Teitel, Amy Shira (2020). Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight. New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5387-1603-8. OCLC 1141078934.

References

  1. [1]
    "About The Vintage Space". YouTube.
  2. [2]
    Masterson, Andrew (July 7, 2016). "History is rocket science to Amy Shira Teitel". Cosmos.
  3. [3]
    Amy Shira Teitel [@astVintageSpace] (February 12, 2017). "Confirmation of citizenship" (Tweet). Retrieved January 21, 2019 – via Twitter.
  4. [4]
    Scoles, Sarah (July 15, 2016). "The first female space shuttle commander will speak at the GOP convention. Huh?". The Washington Post.
  5. [5]
    Zivkovic, Bora (June 4, 2012). "Introducing: Amy Shira Teitel". Scientific American.
  6. [6]
    "Amy Shira Teitel". Al Jazeera English, Author Biography.
  7. [7]
    "AMY SHIRA TEITEL". Popular Science, Author Biography. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017.
  8. [8]
    forward.com, The True Story of How Nazis Invented the Space Program, Ezra Glinter, January 25, 2016, The Forward
  9. [9]
    bloomsbury.com, Breaking the Chains of Gravity
  10. [10]
    Lee, Robert A. (2016). "Book Review: Breaking the Chains of Gravity". National Space Society. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  11. [11]
    "The Space Review". February 17, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  12. [12]
    "Kirkus Reviews". February 18, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  13. [13]
    'The Vintage Space' YouTube channel
  14. [14]
    Amy Shira Teitel page at Seeker
  15. [15]
    Amy Shira Teitel at IMDb
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