Tim Dodd

It might look skinny and tall and all this stuff, but it's still a very, very large piece of machinery.

It's physically about as large as you can ship.

The booster is about as big as you can ship across the country, period.

without completely shutting down highways.

It is made within those exact specifications of having lane privileges and bridges and everything.

It's 12 feet wide, 3.7 meters wide, and it's 45 meters long.

So it's exactly what you can fit with a pretty standard before you start getting into crazy amounts of problems shipping the rocket.

And it's huge.

It's huge.

And people just don't understand that.

And so when I saw it with my own eyes, I remember just being like,

This is so much cooler than I thought.

Yeah, there's certainly a very humbling aspect when you watch it actually leave.

Well, ironically, I didn't end up getting to see that one fly.

Oh.

I went home.

My camera saw it.

I left my camera out there, like a remote-triggered camera.

My first images as a launch photographer at the time was CRS-3, but I went home.

It scrubbed too many times.