Jay C. Buckey

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Jay Buckey
Jay Buckey
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on December 6, 1991
( SLS-2 group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: April 17, 1998
Landing: May 3, 1998
Time in space: 15d 21h 50min
retired on May 3, 1998
Space flights

Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. (born June 6, 1956 in New York City ) is an American doctor and has participated in a space flight as a payload specialist. But he was not a professional astronaut .

Buckey received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1977 and a doctorate in medicine in 1981 , both from Cornell University . He completed his internship at the Cornell Medical Center in New York and completed his training at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon ( New Hampshire ab). Buckey has been Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School since 1996 . He is also an aviation surgeon with the Air Force Reserve Command .

Astronaut activity

Buckey applied for Astronaut Group 13 (1990) and six years later for NASA Group 16. Although he made it into the final selection, he was not selected.

On December 6, 1991, Buckey was nominated by NASA as a payload specialist for the Spacelab mission STS-58 , which was finally carried out in October 1993 . Buckey was only a substitute for Martin Fettman and was therefore not used yet.

On April 4, 1996, Buckey was reassigned as a payload specialist for a Spacelab mission. Two years later, in April 1998, he took part in the STS-90 mission aboard the Columbia space shuttle . The 16-day Neurolab mission primarily served to research the effects of weightlessness on the brain and nervous system . Buckey led the experiment "Cardiovascular Adaption to Zero-Gravity", which he helped to develop.

Political activity

Buckey is a member of the Democratic Party and is planning to run in the 2008 Senate election in New Hampshire state. In the meantime, however, he withdrew from the election campaign; the Democratic nomination then went to Jeanne Shaheen , who then also defeated incumbent John E. Sununu .

Private

Jay Buckey and his wife Sarah have a son and two daughters.

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Commons : Jay C. Buckey  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
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SURNAME Buckey, Jay C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buckey, Jay Clark; Buckey, Jay Clark Junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City