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  • Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight

    Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight - Paperback

    Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight - Paperback

    By Amy Shira Teitel

About Amy Shira Teitel Books

Amy Shira Teitelis a spaceflight historian, author, and public speaker who, much like her subjects, is one of the few academically trained young women in her field. She earned a bachelor's degree with combined honors in history of science and technology and classics as well as a master's in science and technology studies before leaving academia for popular science writing. She has since 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 mission to Pluto team, and appears frequently as an expert interviewee in a number of TV shows and documentaries. She also maintains her blog, Vintage Space, and its companion YouTube channel.