The Wrong Stuff: NASA, Politics and the Mercury 13. | Amy Shira Teitel | TEDxUniversityofRochester

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Amy talks about the American Mercury missions to space that occurred in the early and mid-1960s in preparation for the Apollo missions that eventually landed Americans on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Amy Shira Teitel is a lifelong space history nerd who has turned a childhood fascination with the Moon landings into a career. Over the years she has written for over a dozen online and print outlets including Discovery News and Al Jazeera English, and appeared in several TV series, most notably in NASA's Unexplained Files. Her first book, Breaking the Chains of Gravity, was released in 2016. She currently maintains her personal YouTube channel as well as the popular Vintage Space channel, among a whole other whack of insane and awesome projects.
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