About Scott
Scott "Kidd" Poteet is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 20 years of service who became an astronaut. He served as pilot on the Polaris Dawn mission, where he completed the first commercial spacewalk and conducted the first testing of Starlink laser communication from space. Previously, he was Mission Director for Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight, which raised over $240 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Raymond Hoy / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
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Known for
- Commercial spacewalk on Polaris Dawn mission
- Mission Director for Inspiration4 all-civilian spaceflight
- USAF Thunderbird pilot
- Combat flying over Afghanistan
- Ironman triathlon competitor
- Fighter Weapons School graduate
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