F. Drew Gaffney

  • STS -40 ( 1991)

Francis Andrew " Drew " Gaffney ( born June 9, 1946 in Carlsbad, New Mexico State, United States) is a former American astronaut.

Gaffney received a bachelor's degree in 1968 from the University of California, Berkeley and received his doctorate in medicine at the University of New Mexico in 1972.

In the Texas Air National Guard Gaffney was employed as a flight surgeon.

Astronauts activity

Gaffney's first mission had been planned for the Atlantis mission STS -71 -E in April 1987, but was canceled due to the Challenger disaster. Except Gaffney were planned as crew members of SLS - 1 mission still Vance Brand, David Griggs, John Fabian, James Bagian, Rhea Seddon and Robert Phillips.

From January 1987 to June 1989 Gaffney worked as a scientist in the Department of Life Sciences at NASA. His 15 years of experience in the field of cardiac research led to his nomination as a payload specialist for the Space Shuttle mission STS- 40th On June 5, 1991, aboard the space shuttle Columbia into space. This mission was postponed several times because of the space shuttle various defects had occurred. It was the fifth Spacelab mission, the first devoted entirely to life sciences. The main experiment was Spacelab Life Sciences -1. In this physiological studies in humans, performed 30 rodents and thousands of tiny jellyfish. Of the 18 studies were undertaken with ten people, seven rodents and one with the jellyfish.

Private

Francis Gaffney is married and has two children.

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