@amyshirateitel.bsky.social
Author, historian, streamer, YouTuber, writer.
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!
06.07.2025 18:16 — 👍 73 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Throwback 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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Reading some post-WWII scientists memoirs I came across this bit that felt far too important not to share.
03.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 67 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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.
27.06.2025 20:14 — 👍 62 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1
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!
26.06.2025 21:05 — 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0Another 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!
21.06.2025 18:55 — 👍 45 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1Also @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...
20.06.2025 17:35 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With pretty much everything that looks "wrong" on the Moon, the key thing people insist on ignoring is that the Moon is not the Earth. And the lack of craters under the LM is the top thing people point to, so let's go over it!
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People bring up the shot of Apollo 17 leaving the moon as clear proof it was in a soundstage, so let me explain how it wasn't.
19.06.2025 17:45 — 👍 48 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 0
It's such a good shot of ullage motors I had to talk about them. Also the space for gas and expansion in the tank is called ullage... hence ullage motors. I realize I didn't expressly say that so I'm saying it now!
17.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
You can't see stars on the Moon... but that doesn't meant they aren't there! I've done this many times but I still get comments like this so I guess we're doing it again!
16.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 41 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Imagine having to reject relativity as a physicist in the 1930s. Imagine rejecting Nobel-winning, world-changing science. That's so crazy, right?
Also Hitler thought space was made of ice and that's what caused weather.
For some reason a deep space EVA (or transEarth EVA if you want to be specific) freaks me out more than just being in the spacecraft on the way home. But I love them. I even have a pic from Al Worden's on Apollo 15 signed on my wall!
13.06.2025 17:35 — 👍 37 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
Yes, rockets can fly in a vacuum. It kind of blows my mind that in a country where no one denies firearms exist and have recoil people also deny that action/reaction exists. This one's been coming up a lot in my comments lately so trying to make it more accessible!
12.06.2025 17:07 — 👍 54 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Every time I make a video about this people still insist it's fake, so I want to think through the fake scenarios and see if they make any logical sense... and they just don't! (Also after the comments only last video about this I needed to have a little sassy fun!)
10.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Would you jump from the edge of space? Because I want to say I would but I'd super chicken out. Here's some amazing footage of Joe Kittinger's 1960 Project Excelsior jump!
09.06.2025 17:20 — 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0
I will keep explaining this until people stop saying it's proof Apollo didn't land on the Moon... which means I'll be explaining it approximately forever!
07.06.2025 17:05 — 👍 60 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 0I *just* looked into a scheduling thing so I can pre-load posts here and Xitter to hopefully simplify my workflow because yeah, those comment sections are brutal!
Also I hope your'e well!
I know I don't post enough here but this one NEEDS to be shared -- this is Apollo 11's launch from the launch pad! This is camera E-8 and I did my best to get all the best bits in a short video!
06.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 78 🔁 7 💬 9 📌 0
Been sorting through all the Apollo-era stuff I've accumulated over the years and this picture of Apollo 12's ALSEP package made me giggle a little. I know it's important, but something about a picture of a box of stuff has real "and here's our bag arriving at the hotel" energy.
26.05.2025 21:59 — 👍 137 🔁 11 💬 7 📌 0
BRAND NEW VIDEO! This one's been in the works for a while: a true deep-dive into space politics, focussing on the human side because why are we still trying to replicate Apollo? It's nearly two hours long. Enjoy!
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I saw that! I can't believe that's after you opted out of their auto ad placement thing.
16.05.2025 17:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube seriously put ads every three minutes in my new video. This is insane. This is such a huge deterrent for viewers, which in turn hurts the creator. If you don't manually adjust your ad breaks, this is apparently YouTube's new default.
(New video is up tomorrow with only two ad breaks.)
