Amy Shira Teitel


Amy Shira Teitel is a Canadian author, popular science writer, spaceflight historian, YouTuber, and podcaster.

Career

Writer

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.
Teitel's first book was based on research for her master's degree thesis. Breaking the Chains of Gravity 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 Jacqueline Cochran and Jerrie Cobb.

Plagiarism concerns

In 2013 it was discovered that several of her early space history articles contained plagiarized material, lifted from various sources. The web site hosting the articles took them down after being notified of this. Teitel used the work of numerous space historians without permission or attribution and sold these articles to commercial websites.

Video and other media

Teitel is a co-host for the Discovery Channel's online DNews channel. She also hosts a weekly show on her YouTube channel, Vintage Space, as well as hosting a weekly podcast of the same name, both of which delve into the history of space flight around the world.