Amy Shira Teitel is an historian of spaceflight, blogger, and freelance writer passionate about making space history accessible to everyone. She blogs at Vintage Space where she chronicles her love of space history and space exploration, and she's currently working on a book about NASA's pursuit of runway landings during the space race. In the mean time, her work appears on Discovery News, AmericaSpace and Motherboard.
Apollo and the Saturn IB Rocket - It Happened in Space #14
The Saturn IB rocket was vital to the Apollo era, launching the first manned mission of the lunar landing program, all three Skylab missions, and the Apollo half of the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
Venus' Transits Through History
John Glenn: The Man Behind the Hero
Apollo 1: The Fire That Shocked NASA
Sky Crane - how to land Curiosity on the surface of Mars