I have been enamoured with spaceflight since the second grade when, while researching for a science project on Venus, I came across Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11. I started learning everything I could about the Apollo program and was hooked. My fascination with the space race hasn’t ebbed. I gradually moved back in time (intellectually) to the roots of Apollo in Mercury, Gemini, and even as far back as rocketry in Germany before the Second World War. I’ve found a very happy niche in this slice of history. It’s so rich and layered that there’s always something new to uncover, and each new story invariably changes the way we think about the past as well as the present and future state of spaceflight and space exploration. In something as big and complex as spaceflight, it’s hard to see where we’re going without knowing where we’ve been, but the echoes are very clear.
My academic background in is the history of science but I never loved academic writing – narratives are a lot more fun, both to read and to write, than historiographies and technical analyses. So I decided to pursue my own path as a space writer after I finished my MA. It’s been my goal to bring the great stories of the space age to the public. I started with my blog, Vintage Space, and have since been incredibly fortunate to find myself facing amazing opportunities to this end.
The header image is the first colour picture of the surface of Venus, my personal gateway to space.
I may be confused fascinating or fascination?
As you far more beautiful and smarter than I could ever dream to be, think of this as me trying to understand better your choice of words. It is not unheard of for me to not get my own language.
“My fascinating with the space”
I love reading what you write Amy. We share the same interest in NASA’s early days. I was fortunate to witness much of it as I was 10 when Eagle landed at Tranquility. This lead to my life long love of astronomy & spaceflight!
Congrats on the new site. I look forward to reading your work for years to come!
Hey Amy,
I also share this incredible fascination with all things space, especially the arc of space history. I have been a subscriber to Quest since the mid-1990s, and frequently wonder why it is I delve so deeply into some obscure technological development that in some small way led to some small event in space history. But the truth is, I do it because I love it, much, it seems, as you do.
There is some thing just so inherently fascinating in an endeavor that moves from the first powered flight in 1901 to the moon a bare 67 years later. The things humans do that are constructive can just be so damn fascinating, so much more so than the destructive ones that seem to get all the attention.
So good luck on your career. I look forward to reading more of your work over the years.