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Tim Dodd

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2986 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

But we're talking like in a row without blowing up, which five years ago was completely experimental and insane.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

And now we're coming up to the point where we're 100 in a row.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

It's like, this is becoming...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

more reliable in the landing, which is not the primary mission.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

This is purely for SpaceX's like gain is to recover the booster.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

It has nothing to do with the effect of getting the payload on orbit, you know, most of the time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

And the landing is really only for their benefit and their gain.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

I can't really believe it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

I mean, obviously even just in the, I think I'm a fairly fair weather fan really didn't start paying attention to like 2014.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

And just seeing what it was like back then to what it's like.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Like, I don't watch every launch at all anymore.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Like, I'll catch the big ones.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

I'll stream some of the really big ones.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

But, like, back in the day, I, like I said, would wake up in the middle of the night to catch these streams or, you know, catch these launches and watch them because they were such a big deal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

And there's maybe only five of them a year, you know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

And so it was a really big deal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

Nowadays, it's like, oh, yeah, there's literally like two a week on average now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#356 โ€“ Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

It's insane.