Tim Dodd
Tim Dodd head and shoulder shot
Dodd with RL10 rocket engine in June 2021
Born (1985-02-27) February 27, 1985
Iowa
NationalityAmerican
OccupationScience communicator
Years active2016–present
Websiteeverydayastronaut.com
The logo of "Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut"

Tim Dodd (born February 27, 1985), also known as Everyday Astronaut, is an American science communicator, YouTube content creator, photographer, and musician.[1][2][3][4] After becoming popular with his space-themed photo series, Dodd was hired by the website Spaceflight Now[5] to photograph SpaceX's CRS-3 cargo mission to the International Space Station on April 18, 2014, NASA's Orion Test Flight EFT-1 on December 5, 2014,[6] the United States Air Force's GPS 2F-9 launch,[7] and NASA's OA-6 Mission on March 23, 2016.

Career

Dodd worked as a motorcycle mechanic and a photographer, where his main source of income was in wedding photography. His photography schedule allowed much free time, and he began using this free time to become involved in rocket photography.[8]

In 2013, he purchased an orange Russian high altitude survivor suit (crucial for water landings) in an online auction and later took photos of himself in the suit at a 2014 rocket launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a joke; the suit was for a time a kind of trademark of his YouTube channel.[1][2] In late 2016, he grew dissatisfied with photography as his main means of employment, and continued to pursue his "Everyday Astronaut" internet persona on Instagram and Twitter.[2] In 2017, he created a YouTube channel covering spaceflight education, and that became his primary occupation.[2]

After applying for the mission, in 2022, Dodd was selected to participate in a lunar spaceflight as part of the dearMoon project crew.[9] The mission will happen aboard the SpaceX Starship. This will be the first civilian flight around the moon, and Dodd will be the first YouTuber to go around the moon.

References

  1. 1 2 Emre, Kelly. "For Everyday Astronaut, what was once a joke is now a job". Florida Today. Archived from the original on December 31, 2018. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tasoff, Harrison (June 15, 2018). "Tim Dodd Is the Everyday Astronaut: An Origin Story". Space.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2018. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Byrne, Brendan (March 31, 2017). "Meet The "Everyday Astronaut"". 90.7 WMFE. WMFE. Archived from the original on February 21, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Christina Zdanowicz (February 2017). "This man in a space suit has a message". CNN. Archived from the original on February 21, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Clark, Stephen (August 17, 2017). "Photos: Falcon 9 rocket soars into space, lands back at Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Ray, Justin (December 5, 2014). "Photos: Orion launches at dawn". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ray, Justin (March 25, 2015). "Photos: Delta 4's foggy launch". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  8. ↑ Tasoff, Harrison (June 15, 2018). "Tim Dodd Is the Everyday Astronaut: An Origin Story". Space.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2019. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
  9. ↑ dearMoon Crew Announcement! | 月周回プロジェクトdearMoon クルー発表, archived from the original on December 10, 2022, retrieved December 8, 2022
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