Scott Poteet
- Northern Watch
- Southern Watch
- Joint Guardian
- Freedom's Sentinel
- Resolute Support
Scott Poteet is an American retired pilot from the United States Air Force. He is set to participate in the Polaris Dawn mission, a privately funded human spaceflight operated by SpaceX for Jared Isaacman.
Early life
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Outdoor education at the University of New Hampshire and later attended the Air Command and Staff College and earned a Master's degree in counseling and leadership from University of Colorado Colorado Springs in a program jointly operated with the Air Force Academy.
Career
Scott Poteet is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel who served 18 years in a variety of roles including commanding officer of the 64th Aggressor Squadron, pilot in the USAF Thunderbirds (Position 4), test and evaluation pilot, and commercial pilot. Poteet has over 3,200 flight hours on the F-16, A-4, T-38, T-37, T-3 and Alpha Jet. He logged over 400 combat hours during Operations Northern Watch, Southern Watch, Joint Guardian, Freedom's Sentinel, and Resolute Support.[2]
After retiring from the Air Force, Poteet worked as a director of business development at Draken International from 2016 to 2020 and then as the vice president of strategy at Shift4 from 2020 to 2022, under CEO Jared Isaacman. During his time at Shift4, Poteet also trained then served as the mission director of Inspiration4, the first all-civilian human spaceflight mission led by Isaacman as commander.
Since 2022, Poteet has been training to serve as the spacecraft pilot of the Polaris Dawn mission. During the flight Poteet will serve as a backup to Isaacman, the mission commander, who will be attempting the first commercial spacewalk.[3]
Personal life
Poteet and his wife Kristen have two daughters and one son. He is a runner and triathlete, competing in 15 Ironman triathlons since 2000, including four Ironman World Championships in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.[4]
Media coverage
He appears as a mission director in the 2021 docuseries Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space.
References
- ^ "Private Astronauts Biography:Scott Poteet". spacefacts.de. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ^ "Two Years of Flying High". unhmagazine.unh.edu. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
- ^ "Jared Isaacman, who led the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit, has commissioned 3 more flights from SpaceX". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
- ^ "'I am Ironman': Academy AOC picked for top triathlon > United States Air Force Academy > News Display". United States Air Force Academy. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
See also
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- t
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- Including orbital and supraorbital spaceflights
Flown tourists
- Soviet Space Agency/TBS mission (1990: TM-11/TM-10 to Mir)
- Soviet Space Agency/Project Juno (1991: TM-12/TM-11 to Mir)
- MirCorp ISS EP-1 (2001: TM-32/TM-31 to ISS)
- Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (2002: TM-34/TM-33 to ISS)
- Space Adventures Expedition 11/12 (2005: TMA-7/TMA-6 to ISS)
- Space Adventures Expedition 13/14 (2006: TMA-9/TMA-8 to ISS)
- Space Adventures Expedition 14/15 (2007: TMA-10/TMA-9 to ISS)
- Space Adventures Expedition 17/18 (2008: TMA-13/TMA-12 to ISS)
- Space Adventures Expedition 18/19 (2009: TMA-14/TMA-13 to ISS)
- Charles Simonyi
- Space Adventures Expedition 19/20/21 (2009: TMA-16/TMA-14 to ISS)
- SpaceX/Shift4 Inspiration4 (2021)
- Space Adventures (2021: MS-20 to ISS)
- Axiom Space/SpaceX (2022: Ax-1 to ISS)
- Axiom Space/SpaceX (2023: Ax-2 to ISS)
- Polaris Program/SpaceX Polaris Dawn (2024)
- Jared Isaacman
- Scott Poteet
- Sarah Gillis
- Anna Menon
- Axiom Space/SpaceX untitled movie (2024+)
missions / tourists
- MirCorp missions to Mir (2000; Mir shut-down, then de-orbitted)
- Richard Garriott (2001: replaced by Dennis Tito)
- Lance Bass (2002: Space Adventures ISS EP-4 – TMA-1/TM-34)
- Daisuke Enomoto (2006: replaced by Anousheh Ansari)
- Inspiration Mars (2018, 2021; defunct by 2015)
- Space Adventures/SpaceX mission 1 (2022; contract expired)
- SpaceX dearMoon (2024)
- Space tourists
- Space tourism