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| Born | Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. (1956-06-06)June 6, 1956 (age 68) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Medical Doctor |
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| Dartmouth Payload Specialist | |
Time in space | 15d 21h 50m |
| Missions | STS-90 |
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Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. (born June 6, 1956, inNew York City) is an Americanphysician andastronaut who flew aboard oneSpace Shuttle mission (STS-90) as aPayload Specialist.[1] Buckey briefly ran for the Democratic nomination to challenge New Hampshire SenatorJohn E. Sununu, a first term Republican, when he was up for re-election in 2008. Buckey withdrew from the race when former GovernorJeanne Shaheen entered the race.[2]
Buckey holds aBachelor of Science degree inelectrical engineering fromCornell University (1977) and an M.D. from Cornell in 1981, interning atNew York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and completing his residence atDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Currently, Buckey is aProfessor of Medicine at theGeisel School of Medicine. He was also aflight surgeon with theU.S. Air Force Reserve for 8 years.[1]
In 1998 he was aPayload Specialist aboard NASASpace Shuttle flightSTS-90 as part of theNeurolab mission from April 17 to May 3, 1998. Aboard the Neurolab Mission, Buckey was thePayload Specialist for the experiment "Cardiovascular Adaptation to Zero-Gravity" and assisted with other Spacelab Life Sciences experiments. During the 16-day Spacelab flight, the seven person crew aboardSpace ShuttleColumbia served as both experiment subjects and operators for 26 individual life science experiments focusing on the effects ofmicrogravity on thebrain andnervous system. The STS-90 flight orbited the Earth 256 times, covered 6.3 million miles, and logged him over 381 hours in space.[3]
In 2018, Buckey was part of research usingvirtual reality, at theAustralian Antarctic Division'sMawson Station, wherein the expeditioners used VR headsets to view Australian beach scenes, European nature scenes, and North American nature scenes of forests and urban environments, which were different from the isolation of the whiteness and silence of Antarctica. The research will inform psychological techniques to support long duration spaceflight such as for astronauts going to Mars.[4]
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