But, for the moment, Scott has one mission in mind as he seeks to prove he is not yesterday's man.
It must have meant something to Bob Dole to send campaign manager Scott Reed on a mission to appeal for Perot's withdrawal from the presidential race and his endorsement of Dole.
So, Scott Gerber has made it his mission to ensure that this experience is not replicated.
As Gemini 8 Command Pilot, his March 16, 1966 mission with Pilot David Scott entailed complex rendezvous and docking maneuvers with an unmanned Agena target vehicle which ultimately required recovery from a harrowing, out-of-control spacecraft roll.
He quickly replaced a dozen Scott underlings, rolled out a corporate mission statement with much fuss and signed on Jack Bovender, who had been his number two at HCA. Bovender joined in August 1997 and became chief executive in January 2001.
Even though the mission ended in failure, with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beating Scott's party to the pole by five weeks, Mr Sharpe said it was still one of the biggest scientific success stories of the 20th Century.
BBC: Scott of Antarctic 'propaganda created Welsh obsession'
His decision-making may have prematurely ended the mission, but it saved his life, co-pilot David Scott's life, and possibly the whole American space program.
Tom Sharpe, Antarctic geologist and curator of the exhibition Captain Scott, South For Science, argues that Wales fell in love with the mission because of the brilliant propaganda of the Terra Nova's second-in-command, Edward (Teddy) Evans, later Lord Mountevans.
BBC: Scott of Antarctic 'propaganda created Welsh obsession'
"This mission will give us the first ever robot field geologist on Mars, " Scott Hubbard, Nasa's Mars programme director, said.
At Fort Riley, Kansas, U.S. soldiers training for a mission in Iraq stopped briefly last week to attend a memorial for Sgt. 1st Class John Scott Stephens, an adviser who had been killed in Iraq.
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