Tim Dodd
Tim Dodd (born February 27, 1985), also known as Everyday Astronaut, is an American science communicator, YouTube content creator, photographer, and musician. After becoming popular with his space-themed photo series, Dodd was hired by the website Spaceflight Now 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, the United States Air Force's GPS 2F-9 launch, 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. In 2013, he purchased an orange Russian 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. 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. In 2017, he created a YouTube channel covering spaceflight education, and that became his primary occupation. In May 2021, the channel surpassed one million subscribers. In 2019, Everyday Astronaut stickers were taken to the International Space Station and photographed floating in the cupola. In early October 2019, he released exclusive video interviews with Elon Musk of SpaceX and NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine that trended on YouTube, and in August 2021 a three-part tour of SpaceX Starbase with Elon Musk.