James A. Pawelczyk

  • STS -90 ( 1998)

James Anthony "Jim" Pawelczyk ( born September 20, 1960 in Buffalo, New York) is an American scientist who has participated in a space flight. However, he is not a professional astronaut.

Life

Pawelczyk 1982 received a bachelor's degree in biology and another in Psychology from the University of Rochester in 1985 and a master's degree in physiology from the Pennsylvania State University. In 1989 he received a doctorate in biology and physiology from the University of North Texas.

From 1989 to 1992, he completed his internship at Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas. He was then to 1995 assistant professor of cardiology at Southwestern Medical Center and director of the Autonomic and Exercise Physiology Laboratories at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. Since 1995 he is professor of physiology and kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University.

On 17 April 1998 Pawelczyk launched as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia on the Spacelab mission STS -90. The Neurolab 16-day mission served mainly the study of the effects of weightlessness on the brain and nervous system.

James Pawelczyk is married and has two children.

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