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Full Name Amy Shira Teitel Books Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA Profiles | ||
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Amy Shira Teitel (born March 7, 1986) is a Canadian-American "professional space history nerd", popular science writer, spaceflight historian and online television host, best known for writing Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury 2015). She has also written for The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Discovery News, Scientific American, Ars Technica, Al Jazeera English, and Popular Science. She is a co-host for the Discovery Channel's online DNews channel.
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According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the popularity of her youtube channel "has also resulted in her becoming something of a go-to girl for science shows on mainstream television."
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Teitel is a native of Toronto. She has written for The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Discovery News, Scientific American, Ars Technica, and Al Jazeera English.
Her first book, Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury 2015), tells the story of America's nascent space program. It was her debut book and Kirkus Reviews called it a "must-read for anyone interested in the early history of space exploration." Booklist called it a "fine authorial debut." The book describes the early pioneers of rockets in the late 1920s.
As a Jewish writer, she says she came into a difficult problem writing about her childhood hero Wernher von Braun, who was a Nazi and a member of the SS, stating: "This was a matter of getting history right, which is something I'm very passionate about, but I also had to be careful not to incur the wrath of my family."
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She is a co-host for the Discovery Channel's online DNews channel. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the popularity of her YouTube channel "has also resulted in her becoming something of a go-to girl for science shows on mainstream television."