Blog, vintage space, hosted by Discover Magazine which is also a Youtube Channel with over 325,000 subscribers. She is a regular writer for discovery seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. Among them, nasas unexplained files but she gives talk about spaceflights all around the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy teitel. [applause] guest bring it down to short level. [laughter] good morning everyone and thank you for coming out to listen to me talk first thing in the morning for some including myself. Something weird about hearing your bio read like that. I will try to live up to everything that was just intensely said about me. So, i want to start with a brief conversation of who has heard of the socalled mure andry trent mercury 13 . Oh theres a decent number of hands, maybe 15 or 20, sometimes called the first lady astronaut training. Sorry, theres no way to print my talks im gonna read this bit off my phone. [laughter] if you dont know the s
My husband washed my car over the weekend, so im certain it will rain. I could use some lotion my hands are so dry. Do you guys want a squirt of Hand Sanitizer . This is on like every desk in the newsroom. A lot of people are finding this stuff is sold out. There is a diy movement for people that cannot by Hand Sanitizer. It turns out, you can make it. The World Health Organization has published two formulas with ingredients that can be found online or at the local pharmacy. The recipe calls for using distilled water, either ethanol or rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and glycerol which acts as some sort of moisturizer. Heres my warning. Dont go mixing things on your own. Even if you have a recipe, be very careful. A lot of people are turning to the diy method because this stuff and the clorox wipes is all sold out. I was at the gym every day. Everyone was rubbing things down. I have to thank my wife. She is a big hygiene person. We are always washing our hands. She had a bunch of t
Youtube channel with 325,000 subscribers. She has hosted numerous space and science related shows, among them nasas unexplained and she gives talks about spaceflight all over the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy teitel. [applause] bring it down to short level. [laughter] good morning, everyone and thank you for coming to listen to me talk first thing in the morning including myself. There is Something Weird about hearing your bio read like that. Ill try to live up to everything that was said about me. So, i want to start with the presentation of who has heard of the story of the mercury 13, look at the number of hands, 15 or 20 some times called the astronaut trainees. There is no way to. My talk swell rita off the phone. If you do not know the story of the mercury 13 i will explain it later dont worry. Its a story of 13 women who train for spaceflight in the 1960s and took on nasa with the goal of writing the wrong of sexism. Nasa at the time did not allow women to
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Its also a Youtube Channel with over 325,000 subscribers. Among them the unexplained files. Please give a warm welcome to Amy Shira Teitel [applause]. Good morning everyone. Try to live up to everything. Who here has heard of the story mercury 13. There is a decent number of hands. There was no way to print my talk. If you dont know the story of that mercury 13 i will explain it all later. It is a story of everything and air quotes right now. Thirteen women who trained for spaceflights and took on nasa with the goal of writing the wrong of sexism. Nasa at the time did not allow women into the astronaut corps. They decided they needed to have this change. It went all the way to the house subcommittee hearing. It didnt work. The spaceflight pioneers were astronaut candidates. According to nbc. They trained for space flight. And cut a bent mercury astronauts. The story that is usually told with all of the air quotes features a hero name jerry cobb. She was the first woman to take all of t