Amy Shira Teitel Biography, Age, Height, Married, Husband

May 2024 · 4 minute read

In a time when unexpected memories are rapidly slipping from common understanding, it becomes necessary for someone to collect the material before the creators of the story die and the punch cards rot. When it comes to space history, it becomes even more paramount to have a historian who would chronicle the past, especially when the spaceflight of the past fades. The only historian who has entered into this situation is none other than the Canadian-American spaceflight historian, Amy Shira Teitel.

Shira Teitel managed to makeThe past of spaceflight is interesting and extremely cool. She was born the same year when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on live television in 1986. Amy writes and talks about the orbiting heroes of the 60s, such as Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin and Laika the dog, and everything what has to do with their exploits.

She fell in love with the world of space at the age of 7 and hasn’t let go since. Amy uses all possible means to talk or write about space science and its various facets and aspects. As such, she is not only a spaceflight historian, she is also an author, blogger, speaker, science writer, host, YouTuber and podcaster. She is widely known for her book Breaking the Chains of Gravity (2015) which follows the evolution of rocket technology to the founding of NASA and the Space Vintage YouTube channel .

Additionally, she is a big fan of space history and her channel’s popularity has led The Sydney Morning Herald to call her the go-to girl for science shows on mainstream television.

Bio of Amy Shira Teitel (Age)

Science enthusiast, Amy Shira Teitel is a Canadian-American national who was born on March 7, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario. She was born under the zodiac sign, Pisces. His family is Jewish. There are no other known details about his family or his educational background.

Growing up in her Toronto home, she fell in love with all the space when she was 7 years old. His intense and boundless love for spaceflight was born out of a sophomore project. She was researching Venus and was struck by how different it was from Earth, a fact she also observed in the night sky. Her sense of awe was further heightened when she saw a cartoon image of two astronauts, including Neil Armstrong on the Moon, in her children’s space books.

Captivated, she searched further to find out how and why men walked on the Moon and her love affair with space and the history of spaceflight began. Although Teitel has always been artistic, her love for space has allowed her to transition into a career in STEM. She started writing seriously in high school and studied science and technology in college. Combining writing and space history, his fascination gave birth to his first book and his YouTube channel.

She attended the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she graduated with an Honors BA in History of Science and Technology. She went on to earn a Masters of Science and Technology from York University in Toronto, Ontario.

During her undergraduate studies, Amy Shira Teitel found a way to share her interest and accumulate more knowledge – blogging. She launched her Vintage Space blog site in November 2010, which recounts her love for space history and human exploration. This was followed by the publication of his first book, Breaking the Chains of Gravity in 2015. The book was published to positive reviews and builds on his research for his Masters thesis on spaceflight before NASA . Her second book, Fighting for Space is set to be published in January 2020.

On the strength of these achievements, she embarked on the acquisition of more and more land leading to the launch of her YouTube channel, Espace Vintage in June 2012. On the channel, she hosts a weekly program as well as a weekly podcast from same name. Amy Shira Teitel also has a second channel, an eponymous channel where she vlogs on all subjects other than STEM.

Apart from her personal engagements, she has also worked for several media including Universe Today, The Daily Beast, National Geographic, Scientific American, Ars Technica, and Al Jazeera English. Amy Shira Teitel co-hosts the Discovery Channel’s online DNews and also contributes to Universe Today and motherboard.tv. Additionally, she has been featured in Cosmos Magazine and Tube Filter.

Is she married? Husband

Amy Shira Teitel is a space enthusiast and very passionate about what she does. Anything you might find on his social media accounts is mostly work-related, making it difficult to keep tabs on his personal life. She didn’t mention a relationship with the media but that’s not to say she’s averse to dating. She may be seeing someone or even be married, though we still haven’t spotted a minnow on her ring finger.

It’s safe to stay in the realm of assumptions until she opens up about her personal life. By the way, she lives in Pasadena, Los Angeles with her cat, which she named after NASA astronaut Pete Conrad.

the size

Teitel is 5 feet 7 inches or 1.68 meters tall. She weighs 141 lbs (64 kg). The Canadian-American spaceflight historian has brown hair and complementary turn signals.

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