Amy Shira Teitel

Amy Shira Teitel
Teitel in a video from her YouTube channel, The Vintage Space, in 2020
Born	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education	BA History of Science and Technology and Classics, University of King's College, Nova Scotia MA Science and Technology Studies, York University, Ontario
Occupation(s)	Popular science writer, journalist
YouTube information
Channel	The Vintage Space
Subscribers	448 thousand
Views	69.5 million
Last updated: 11 November 2025
Website	www.amyshirateitel.com

Amy Shira Teitel is a Canadian ^{[1] [2]} author, popular science writer, historian, ^[3] and YouTuber.

Career

Writer

Amy Shira Teitel is a native of Toronto. ^[4] She has written for The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Discovery News, Scientific American, Ars Technica, and Al Jazeera English. ^{[5] [6]}

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. ^{[7] [8]} The book describes the early pioneers of rockets in the late 1920s, up to the formation of NASA. ^[9]

Teitel's Fighting for Space (2020) is a dual biography of female pilots Jacqueline Cochran and Jerrie Cobb. ^{[10] [11]}

Video and other media

In 2012, Teitel created the YouTube channel, The Vintage Space, ^[12] 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. ^[13] She has also appeared on Ancient Aliens, NASA's Unexplained Files, and other cable documentary shows. ^[14]

References

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

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.

External links

• Official website
• Amy Shira Teitel at IMDb