Danny Jones Podcast
#370 - “I Found the Proof That Ends the Moon Landing Debate” | Tim Dodd
09 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
The first time I discovered you was when you made that video about addressing the whole moon landing conspiracy. You made the most incredible deep dive on all the points of the moon landing hoax, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it that I've ever seen. And you address them all. You bring a lot of information to it and you make a very compelling case for every single argument.
But before we get into all that, tell me your background and how you got into all this stuff, the rocketry stuff and everything you do with your YouTube channel.
Yeah. So yeah, I run a YouTube channel called Everyday Astronaut. And I've been doing that full time since 2017. Before that, I was a professional photographer. So that's actually why I like a lot of this moon stuff. And when people have topics about the shadows and the lighting and the Stars and stuff.
I'm always like, yes, this is like this is in my ultimate wheelhouse, you know, but starting in 2017, I really just became obsessed with spaceflight. It actually all started. I bought like a old Russian spacesuit kind of as a joke in 2013 and started a art project. And that art project, a photography project was called Everyday Astronaut.
And so it was like, I literally took the suit around the world. I mean, I hiked the great wall of China with a space suit and like took pictures of me. I like, I don't know what I was doing really with it. Other than just, I wanted to make something. This is kind of an Instagram was like, you know, everyone's trying to do some catchy Instagram thing.
So that was kind of my like outlet as a professional photographer. I just wanted an art project, but I was also hiding, like I was doing series where I was hiding a lot of like Easter eggs and facts about like space flight, you know, and especially like space flight history. And I just fell in love with it. I went from like,
I like space and, you know, I grew up with like the Lego space shuttle and like a space shuttle poster on the wall kind of thing, but was way more into like cars and jets and music and whatever, you know, not necessarily like a space kid. You know, I was never like my goal in life is going to I'm going to go to space, you know, like not like that.
But all of a sudden, like during that, like 2013, 14 process, I just fell in love with the whole thing just by doing the art project and also watching at the time, like that's when SpaceX was trying to land their Falcon 9 booster for the first time. So I just started like watching some of that stuff and I was like, this is awesome. Like why, how can I learn more about this?
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Chapter 2: How did Tim Dodd become involved in space exploration?
And I was just, you know, going over like on Reddit all the time and I was reading all the blogs and watching every, like everything I could absorb and there wasn't a lot out there. And I'm like, I don't know. Why don't I just make videos about this stuff? Cause it's really exciting. And like, I feel like there's a lot of questions that I'm seeing asked often that I'm not getting good answers to.
So I just started making videos about how rockets work and, um, That just pretty quickly. So you're self-taught? You just kind of like learned all this stuff on your own? Yeah. Yeah.
Wow.
Yep. And it just kind of kept going, started going to rocket launches, you know, out here at the Cape over here in Florida and at Vandenberg. And then SpaceX started doing a lot of stuff at Starbase, Texas, which is like very southern tip of Texas down by Brownsville. in 2019.
And I started covering all that stuff originally from a guy's rooftop, like from two and a half miles away during some of their first test flights. And then I started, I mean, I've been out there for pretty much every single launch out there as well with their Starship vehicle and things like that too. So. And you're based in Iowa. Based in Iowa. Yep. But spent a lot of time in Texas.
Texas is kind of home too. And, and I'm just, yeah, wherever, wherever the rockets take me. Rocket chaser, man. Yeah. That's wild, dude.
So I, I, At what point did you decide to make that film addressing the whole moon landing thing?
It was because of the Joe Rogan. Oh, was it?
Oh, wow.
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Chapter 3: What are the key arguments regarding the moon landing debate?
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For these new missions to go up there, apparently we're supposed to orbit the moon again like next month, right?
We're about two weeks away. Two weeks? Yeah. As early as February 6th. Okay. Steve found the Von Braun video. Is this the one?
Does it say the year?
This is it. Okay. This is one that Bart sent me.
Okay. You can actually find it on YouTube and it says the year.
I found it on YouTube before. Or you can go to subrell.com.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges of refueling rockets for space missions?
I mean, it's.
Yeah. It's incredible. It's crazy. It's crazy. The photos, the still photos are enormous.
Yes. Especially that the one website that I, it was a university of Arizona scan. all the original 70 millimeter film. I mean, yeah, each of those, it's like a hundred or it's, it's multiple gigs worth of imagery.
Chapter 5: How is NASA's new administrator influencing space exploration?
There are massive files and they are still to this day, just stunning from that Hasselblad camera. It's like art, but I really want, so there's a new NASA administrator named Jared Isaacman. Uh, I'll kind of say he's a friend of mine. Definitely, I've met him a handful of time. Flown in his jets three times, in his Alpha Jet and his MiG. Really? He's got a MiG?
Dude, he used to own the world's largest private air force, Drakken International. They basically cross-trained against US military.
Chapter 6: What role does black budget propulsion technology play in space travel?
It was a cheaper way instead of the Army or Navy or Air Force training against their own red teams. A private air force. He basically was like, hey, I can do this for a tenth the cost. I can just buy MiGs and do this for a 10th the cost. That's actually how he kind of became a billionaire was through creating Drakken and counter-training against US military forces.
And then he sold that and started Shift 4 Payment Company. So if you ever see the Shift 4, little like, you know, you're paying with your watch or whatever, you know, little terminals, like next time you're at like a, on like a 7-Eleven or at a state, they're in a lot of stadiums for payment, a little point of sale thing.
Just look, if it says shift four, that's the current NASA administrators previous company, too. So. Oh, wow. So he became a billionaire, started buying flights from SpaceX. 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. So he's the real deal. He's awesome. And there's a lot of things that I'm excited for in his administration.
But one of the things I want him to do is I would love for him to spearhead a better archive of all this old footage. I want every launch. I want you to be able to say, STS-107 space shuttle mission, show me everything NASA has in the highest quality. I think as the public- What better PR thing to do when more young people than ever think the moon thing was fake.
I know, like, please just give us all of this beautiful footage. And, you know, there's still, it's so disorganized. It's so disjointed. A lot of the stuff on NASA is still like this old, like rip from like 2004, like 180P, you know, like, or not even 180, like 120P, like horrible resolution. And you're just like, can we please get a modern, you know, modern bit rates, modern,
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Chapter 7: What new technologies are enabling satellite construction today?
Like maybe one company had their own in-house built in star tracker and KU band antenna. And, you know, GPS monitor, whatever, whatever things they would have. And they would kind of pull from their own inventory that they built. But now it's like, you don't have to do that anymore. You can build a satellite. Mark Rober launched a satellite last January called sat Gus.
It was a selfie set, literally selfie sat. You can literally upload your photo and it will take a picture. It'll put your photo on a screen. And then on that screen, it has a camera that takes a picture of the screen so you can see yourself in space. Oh my God, dude. I mean, I know that sounds silly and I know it sounds kind of like frivolous and stuff.
That's the decline of civilization.
I actually think it's incredible. Cause if you pause on it for a second and think about how many kids now, he has a huge audience for kids. Really? Oh, it's massive. Mark what? Mark Rober, the 10th, like top 10 biggest YouTubers. I think he has like a hundred million subscribers or something. Whoa. He's worth 50 million. He's way up there.
You know, he's, he's one of the top, like, have you ever seen like those glitter bomb videos? He's a former NASA engineer. He's, he's up there. You've seen his stuff. Like at some point you had to have. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so the idea is now he has, you know, a hundred million kids saw this idea that like, Hey, you could build a satellite. You can upload. I can see myself in space.
He did an amazing job of showing how they built the satellite, how it launched on a Falcon nine on a ride share mission. I think this could have done more to impact a young generation as silly as it is. And I mean, this is probably, you probably did this for less than $2 million, which is crazy.
Like if you could have said 20 years ago that for $2 million, you can launch a, your own satellite, you had been laughed out of the room.
So this is a photo of like a real photo of his selfie on a screen in outer space.
Right. And do you have to pay for this? Nope. The wait list now is like two years though or something. Oh my God. Because it can only operate during certain windows and has a downlink capability and all this stuff. But it's orbiting. It's in orbit. That's insane, dude.
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Chapter 8: How does AI influence our perception of truth in media?
Is he the owner of Crunch Labs?
Yes. That's that little kid's box. Like, yeah. Oh, the one that the guy brought in the other day?
With his kid? Yeah, it was something like that. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah. I think they have a kids show that they have the kids do those boxes or some type of building.
Probably. He's a mega. He's huge.
How much attention did you pay to, how close of attention did you pay to the three-eye Atlas thing? The interstellar objects.
A decent amount. I saw a lot of, I mean, it was definitely making its rounds on social media, but.
Yeah.
I mean, and it has some cool things. It's, we haven't tracked that many interstellar objects before. Yeah. Well, three, right? Yeah. I think this is, is that what it is? Three.
I never realized it.
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