Amy Shira Teitel is the author of two books: Fighting for Space (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) and Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Researching for a second-grade project on Venus, Amy was captivated by a cartoon image of two astronauts on the Moon and had to know everything about the Apollo program. That led to a fascination with all things early aviation, technological evolutions, and a love of with mid-century and the Cold War history. She makes deep dive historical video essays and history shorts.