Tim Dodd
speaker
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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We have, we've done this before.
Here's our, here's what we use for a CO2 scrubber.
Here's what we use for a toilet.
Here's our blueprints, you know, work on that.
Famously, SpaceX, when they first launched
were working on a docking adapter for docking to the International Space Station.
NASA actually sent them one of their docking ports.
It was like, here you go, you know, careful.
This is like a $30 million piece, or like literally, I think a $10 million piece of hardware.
And apparently the story goes, they all were like, this is really heavy and this is really expensive.
What are we doing here?
And SpaceX took that blueprint.
They whittled it down.
Literally, I think this is the one where they used, for the clamping mechanisms, they literally ended up using mountain bike springs
And they built their own in-house in like four months or something for like dirt cheap.
Yeah.
That's nuts.
So it's like, you know, NASA knows what they're doing and they're going to build an incredible product, but they have no incentive to do it inexpensive.
And like, it's like, just make it perfect, you know, as opposed to like make it work and make it sustainable.
It's not really in the directive per se.
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