Amy Shira Teitel

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

Amy Shira Teitel
BornMarch 7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversity of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia (BA, History of Science and Technology and Classics)
York University, Toronto, Ontario (MA, Science and Technology Studies)
OccupationPopular science writer, journalist
YouTube information
Channel
Subscribers382,000+[1]
Total views40 million[1]
Websiteamyshirateitel.com

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 2020 book, Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight, 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.

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
  • Amy Shira Teitel, Breaking the chains of gravity : the story of spaceflight before NASA London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015. ISBN 9781472911179
  • Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight Grand Central Publishing, 2020ISBN 978-1-5387-1603-8

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