Tim Dodd
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6,277 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2023
last heard 9 Feb
Tim Dodd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was the first private astronaut flights.
He's done two orbital missions with space with SpaceX.
So he bought, Inspiration4 was the first all-private civilian mission that was an orbital mission.
So not just like a little hop for four minutes, they were up there for three full days and flying inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
They removed the docking port because they weren't docking with the International Space Station, put this beautiful window, a cupola window, like the size of the diameter of this table that they could look out and it's just stunning.
Some of the coolest images.
He paid for that and then developed that program himself.
Then after that, he kind of caught the bug and he started a new program called Polaris.
And he said, the first one we want to do is we actually want to do the first commercial spacewalk.
And SpaceX had never done a spacewalk.
So this required developing new spacesuits.
They would open up the Dragon capsule's hatch, depressurize the entire vehicle.
So all four astronauts inside the Dragon capsule were sitting there in the vacuum of space.
Only two of them ever poked their heads up.
And they were just doing a basic shakedown of movement of the spacesuit is very primitive compared to what's coming with SpaceX developing their own EVA suits.
They're called extravehicular activity suits.
But he developed that whole program.
It took him almost two years.
So he's flown twice on orbital missions.
He's the first person to ever do a commercial spacewalk.
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