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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

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The Intricacies of Materials and Engineering

I think Elon definitely helped make spaceflight cool. Helped make that like a celebration thing where people are physically out cheering for rockets and science and space exploration. There's all these people that lurk in the shadows. They're just geniuses. And it's actually really inspiring. I mean, maybe because I don't deeply understand a lot of hardware stuff, materials, engineering, mechanical engineering, those people seem like so much smarter. It's always like the grass is green or whatever the expression is. But there's a depth of understanding that engineers have that do like mechanical engineering. That's just awe inspiring to me.

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