Amy Shira Teitel is the author of two books: Fighting for Space (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) and Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Amy has had a lifelong passion for spaceflight; researching for a second-grade project on Venus, she was captivated by a cartoon image of two astronauts on the Moon and had to know everything about the Apollo program. Her interests, however, go well beyond space. She also loves early aviation, early technological evolutions, and she's endlessly fascinated with mid-century America.