Kidd Poteet
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Kidd Poteet
@KiddPoteet
Polaris Dawn - Astronaut 🚀🧑🏻🚀 | Retired USAF Lt Col | Combat Warrior | Thunderbird #4 Pilot | Professional Speaker
Joined September 2020
- Ive done a lot of flybys, but PIRs around rockets never get old…circa 2007 & 2022
- Our apology for the photobomb but @PolarisProgram crew couldn’t resist! @SpaceX @rookisaacman @Gillis_SarahE @johnkrausphotos
- The creation of a mass-produced EVA suit that will allow 1000’s of humans to explore the surface of the moon & Mars is inevitable. What we learn during Polaris Dawn will hopefully contribute to SpaceX’s development of those future EVA suits.
- Quarantine continues…so appreciative of Elon’s message to the team yesterday emphasizing the criticality of making our safety his and @SpaceX #1 priority. Makes me even more confident strapping in. @PolarisProgram
- Where does one get an “American Broomstick” tshirt?
- 16Jul69 Apollo 11 launches from KSC and begins their historic journey to the Moon.
- Static fire complete. 6sec of 🔥. 🐉 and Falcon ready to be unleashed. Get some…@PolarisProgram
- The one item I asked the crew to fly during Inspiration4 - Apollo XI stamps autographed by Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins obtained by my grandmother back in the 70s. Now hangs in my office and can be seen on zoom calls @inspiration4x @PolarisProgram @RealBuzzAldrin
00:00 - Spent a couple hours alone with our sleeping Dragon. 20.24 mile run in honor of the Year of the 🐉. Unique facts about LC-39A: - Pad built in 1960s to handle Saturn V rocket - All Apollo & Falcon 9 crewed missions except Apollo 10 have launched from 39A as well as many Shuttle
- Another reason I have full faith and confidence and won’t hesitate to strap in.The @PolarisProgram mission readiness review just finished and we are currently go for launch in just over 24 hours. Crew safety is absolutely paramount and this mission carries more risk than usual, as it will be the furthest humans have traveled from Earth since Apollo and the
- After spending 20yrs flying fighters, there are few I trust when flying formation within inches…@rookisaacman is one of them. I’ve also witnessed his ability to perform under the most stressful of circumstances traveling 17,500mph while orbiting the earth higher than anyone hasThe next giant leap 🇺🇸
