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Amy Shira-Teitel

  • Spaceflight Historian and Science Writer, Freelance
Los Angeles
As seen in: Medium, BBC, TIME, BuzzFeed, Motherboard, Scientific American, The Daily Beast, The History Channel, VICE, DNews and
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How Did We Find the Atom?

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By Amy Shira Teitel, Amy Shira-Teitel
| Medium
An atomic bomb is one of the biggest man-made reactions we can get. The power of this detonation is unfathomable, and the fact that it comes from the smallest thing we know is even more mind-bending. An atomic bomb takes advantage of a chain reaction of atoms splitting, releasing heat and energy in the process… but how exactly did scientists find and exploit this reaction? That’s the question I started with, but then I realized I wanted to go even further back: how did we find the atom?
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Why Our Space Dreams Keep Getting Grounded

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By Amy Shira Teitel, Amy Shira-Teitel
| Medium
This is, as usual, the blogified version of the script from my new YouTube video. Exploring space is an amazing, beautiful, inspiring, noble human endeavour. Since the earliest days of humans looking up at the night sky, we’ve wanted to know these distant point of light, visit other planets, see what’s happening on other bodies, and, ultimately, figure out where we fit in on the cosmic scale, leaving bootprints along the way. Right? Or is space a political bargaining tool with a side of science?
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Wernher von Braun’s Hugely Complicated Legacy

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By Amy Shira Teitel, Amy Shira-Teitel
| Medium
Amy Shira Teitel · Follow 47 min read · -- Wernher von Braun went from meetings with Hitler about Germany’s V-2 wonder weapon, a weapon built with concentration camp labour, to one of the lead architects behind Apollo 11 in less than twenty years. His move from high-ranking Nazi to American celebrity began with a single typo. How should we treat an ex-Nazi? Should science and technology overlook someone’s background if their most visible accomplishment is inspirational?
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