Amy Teitel - "When Women Fought For Space" by U of King's College

Amy Shira Teitel gave the keynote lecture of the 2020 History of Science and Technology Society student conference on "Imagining Futures"

Amy Shira Teitel is a Toronto-born spaceflight historian, author, and public speaker who, much like her subjects, is one of the few academically trained young women in her field. She has written for more than two dozen websites, including the BBC and Time magazine online, earned a Group Achievement Award from NASA as part of the New Horizons Pluto team, runs a popular blog called Vintage Space and its companion YouTube channel, and was a co-host for the Discovery Channel’s DNews. Fighting for Space is Teitel’s second, much-anticipated book, and tells the story of Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb, two 20th century pioneers of female spaceflight who changed the space industry forever.