Stories by Amy Shira Teitel

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. Follow Amy Shira Teitel on Twitter @astVintageSpace

Space & Physics

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...

February 26, 2014 — Amy Shira Teitel

Venus' Transits Through History

June 5, 2012 — Amy Shira Teitel

John Glenn: The Man Behind the Hero

February 20, 2012 — Amy Shira Teitel

Apollo 1: The Fire That Shocked NASA

January 27, 2012 — Amy Shira Teitel

The Sciences

Sky Crane - how to land Curiosity on the surface of Mars

On 26th November 2011 at 15:02, NASA launched its Mars Science Laboratory mission. MSL is the latest in the organization’s nearly four decade long robotic presence on the red planet.

November 28, 2011 — Amy Shira Teitel