Amy Shira Teitel is a

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writer, spaceflight historian, and

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Career

Writer

Amy Shira Teitel is a native of

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. She has written for The Daily Beast, ''National Geographic'', Discovery News, ''Scientific American'', Ars Technica, and

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English.Amy Shira Teitel

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, Author Biography Teitel's first book was based on research for her

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. ''Breaking the Chains of Gravity'' (2015) tells the story of America's nascent space program. The book describes the early pioneers of rockets in the late 1920s, up to the formation of NASA. Teitel's 2020 book, '' Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight'', is a dual biography of female pilots

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and

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.Kirkus Reviews
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Video and other media

In 2012, Teitel created the YouTube channel, ''The Vintage Space'','The Vintage Space' Youtube channel
/ref> in which she delves into the early history of space flight. Teitel was a co-host for the

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's online DNews channel, which later became Seeker.Amy Shira Teitel page at Seeker
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, and other cable documentary shows.Amy Shira Teitel at IMDB
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Bibliography

* Amy Shira Teitel, ''Breaking the chains of gravity : the story of spaceflight before NASA'' London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015. * '' Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight'' Grand Central Publishing, 2020

References

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