Amy Shira Teitel

There's a lot to this: reading rate being down; attention spans dwindling; and short form content boiling everything down to it's most basic, un-nuanced take. The results is some pretty bad… Short form videos are making books BAD

Has our short form video consumption affected books? I explored my hunch that yes, it has, in my latest video on my second channel:

This came up in researching Apollo 13 and the suggestion to take the stimulant during landing. Fred worried Jack had accidentally taken a wrong pill, and apparently it did happen on Apollo 17! If… Taking the wrong meds for gas #shorts #history

Sometimes digging through Apollo transcripts brings up the silliest moments, like flatulence and the wrong pills.

theSpaceVixen - Twitch Author and historian rants while poorly playing video games she missed as a child.

Not something I usually do, slash ever do, but I have to sift through the Apollo 13 voice files for a video so I'm doing it on stream today! Figure it might be interesting to some people out there!

My main channel, The Vintage Space: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw95T_TgbGHhTml4xZ9yIqg What is Happening to Japan? (Abroad in Japan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEWhmQjeh_I My… Making content is awful now

I've been feeling for a while now that I have things I want to talk about that don't really fit on The Vintage Space -- so I've relaunched my second channel for some casual, more op-ed kind of videos. Inaugural video is up, and I'm excited about this!

If you enjoy these shorts, consider supporting my work! https://www.patreon.com/amyshirateitel Check out my books here:… How did Nixon call the MOON!? #shorts #history

Got lots of questions this week about how Nixon could possibly call the Moon for the famous chat with Buzz and Neil, so I made a quick little explainer!

One day I don't have to keep repeating these points. Also I threw this together super quick last night -- hoping these are clear enough short answers! If you enjoy these shorts, consider supporting… Like I wasn't going to respond... #shorts #kardashians

I couldn't leave this one alone. Like it seems silly and harmless, but this is such a slippery slope in to damaging conspiracy theories like anti-vax and climate change denial, so I'm going to keep explaining it in the hopes people start actually thinking about things.

If you enjoy these shorts, consider supporting my work! https://www.patreon.com/amyshirateitel Check out my books here:… T-minus 262 #shorts #books

New book in the works so decided to share a little progress along the way with weekly updates! Still not talking specifics, but I will say this is an endlessly fascinating process.

Launch window calculations are obviously more complicated than this, so take this as a primer! Other considerations were comms, spacecraft performance, and how the light would shift over the course… How to get to the Moon #shorts #history

Perhaps one of the most interesting elements of a lunar landing mission to think through: when and how do you launch?

I learned this and it's cool so I want you to learn about it, too! Here's a longer article: https://physicsworld.com/a/sticky-tape-takes-x-ray-images/ You can take an X-ray with tape #shorts #science

Diving into the atom, I learned that it's possible to take X-rays with a roll of tape! And a vacuum chamber, but still! Some researchers have ever looked at this as a cheap way to bring medical imaging to developing nations to help local doctors.

Read more at Honeysuckle Creek: https://honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/ARIA/index.html If you like my work, consider supporting my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/amyshirateitel You've never seen this #shorts #history

This one was entirely new to me when I found it the other day: a picture of Apollo 8 reentering the atmosphere, and what is likely the Service Module burning up! New Short has the details!

Want to know more about our journey into the atom? Full video is right here! https://youtu.be/BUV8XYaZ4EU When we discovered sunlight #shorts #history #atomic

Fraunhofer lines are super cool, and such an important step on our journey into the atom!

After my video about the Crawler-Transporter a couple of weeks ago, I had a LOT of questions about how it was moved onto the launch pad and what happens to the whole thing during launch. Doesn't it… People had questions #shorts #history

The Mobile Launcher (during Apollo, renamed the Mobile Launch Platform during the Shuttle era) is such a cool piece of engineering. The Saturn V's journey was amazing from the moment it left the VAB!

Full video is right here: https://youtu.be/BUV8XYaZ4EU Also these models are obviously for illustrative purposes only, the starting image being the most often "accepted" illustration of an atom. The… Cool old atomic models #shorts #history #atomic

One of the funnest parts of my latest long form video was animating all the different atomic models! So I threw them all together in a quick little short.

SO much stuff coming about the atomic bomb program. And that's all I'm saying about specifics for the time being! Heisenberg's surrender #shorts #history #atomic

There's a really interesting parallel between Wernher von Braun and Werner Heisenberg during the war. As I dive into the atomic bomb for my new book -- the specifics of which I'm not sharing for the moment -- I'm excited to share some research tidbits!

This is a revisit of an old blog at PopSci:… That Time Astronauts Discovered the Apollo Spacecraft was a Terrible Boat

Jim Lovell also did a seaworthiness test, checking that the Apollo command module could survive at sea for three days in an emergency. I got to ask him about it once. He said it was horrible!

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Also the story of the time I met Jim Lovell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyuP_5CRjc All footage from NASA Jim Lovell had the best career #shorts #nasa #apollo #history

A quick look at Jim Lovell's incredible missions -- the first dual spacecraft mission, the final Gemini mission that rounded out the program, the first human mission to the Moon, and Apollo 13.

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YouTube video by The Vintage Space Our Insane Atomic Journey: How Did We Get Here?

I started wanting to really understand how the atomic bomb was built. I ended up wanting to learn how we found the atom, so I made a massive video about it!
Huge thanks to @drskyskull.bsky.social for going over some physics with me!

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After a super nerdy friend of mine was excited to learn Apollo 10's spacecraft were named Snoopy and Charlie Brown, I thought it'd be fun to tell the story!

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An incredibly rare view: Earth orbit but you're inside the fuel tank! Just some awesome Apollo history to share.

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Came across Carl von Ossietzky in some research last week and kinda felt like more people ought to know about him.

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Just wanted to highlight that the Voyager missions -- which, according to NASA, cost each taxpayer just 8 cents -- returned a wealth of science and inspiration to boot.

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It took me a while, but I finally have The Vintage Space merch! Tantrum is an excellent, small company -- not one of the major print-on-demand vendors -- with great quality and colour options. Also each of these four designs was hand drawn by yours truly!

Throwback to the time I met Apollo 12's Dick Gordon and had a very serious, important question to ask about the mission...

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This memoir was written in 1946, and before anyone asks: yes, I'm getting into som new post-war science stuff, but it's going to be a bit to finish writing a... A warning #shorts #history

Reading some post-WWII scientists memoirs I came across this bit that felt far too important not to share.

It's never going to stop, is it. Why would you bother faking it? #shorts #history

I think my favourite part about the whole conspiracy thing is conspiracy theorists are really convinced they've found some evidence Soviet intelligence experts missed. Apparently.

Ranger 7 was also the mission that started the JPL peanuts tradition. Putting this in my description before anyone explains that to me in the comments! Let's crash into the Moon why not #shorts #history

NASA's Ranger 7 A Camera pictures put together to show the first time we crashed into the Moon. Another from the "this is super cool and I wanted to share it" files!

Another from the fun files! This was the era where there was, obviously, no 3D modeling. You had an idea, you did the math to design it, then you built a tiny one and flew it to see how it'd work. Just love old videos like this so wanted to share!

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Just another fun one today from the "I've been sorting my video archive" files! Playing around on Skylab.

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Sometimes I zone out watching footage like this and it's super calming, so here's a calm moment for your weekend!

Also @philplait.bsky.social‬ has the best breakdown of this with all the math, highly recommend reading his piece if you want more details: www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxap...