Tim Dodd
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 Dodd with RL10 rocket engine in June 2021 | ||||||||||
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| Born | February 27, 1985 | |||||||||
| Nationality | United States | |||||||||
| Occupation | Science communicator | |||||||||
| Website | everydayastronaut | |||||||||
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| Also known as | The Everyday Astronaut | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2016–Present | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.32 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 160 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 14 June 2022 | ||||||||||
Tim Dodd (born February 27, 1985), also known as Everyday Astronaut, is an American science communicator, YouTube content creator, photographer, and musician.[2][3][4][5] After becoming popular with his space-themed photo series, Dodd was hired by the website Spaceflight Now[6] to photograph SpaceX's CRS-3 cargo mission to the International Space Station on April 18, 2014, NASA's Orion Test Flight EFT-1 on December 5, 2014,[7] the United States Air Force's GPS 2F-9 launch,[8] and NASA's OA-6 Mission on March 23, 2016.
Career
Dodd worked as a motorcycle mechanic and a photographer, where his main source of income was in wedding photography. His photography schedule allowed much free time, and he began using this free time to become involved in rocket photography.[9]
In 2013, he purchased an orange SLS high-altitude flight suit in an online auction and later took photos of himself in the suit at a 2014 rocket launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a joke; the suit was for a time a kind of trademark of his YouTube channel.[2][3] In late 2016, he grew dissatisfied with photography as his main means of employment, and continued to pursue his "Everyday Astronaut" internet persona on Instagram and Twitter.[3] In 2017, he created a YouTube channel covering spaceflight education, and that became his primary occupation.[3]
References
- ^ a b "About Everyday Astronaut". YouTube.
- ^ a b Emre, Kelly. "For Everyday Astronaut, what was once a joke is now a job". Florida Today. Archived from the original on 31 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d Tasoff, Harrison (June 15, 2018). "Tim Dodd Is the Everyday Astronaut: An Origin Story". Space.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ Byrne, Brendan (31 March 2017). "Meet The "Everyday Astronaut"". 90.7 WMFE. WMFE. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ Christina Zdanowicz. "This man in a space suit has a message". CNN. CNN. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ Clark, Stephen. "Photos: Falcon 9 rocket soars into space, lands back at Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now". Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ^ Ray, Justin (December 5, 2014). "Photos: Orion launches at dawn". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ Ray, Justin (March 25, 2015). "Photos: Delta 4's foggy launch". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ^ Tasoff, Harrison (15 June 2018). "Tim Dodd Is the Everyday Astronaut: An Origin Story". Space.com. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-16.