Jay C. Buckey

• STS -90 ( 1998)

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 1977, he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and a doctorate in medicine, both from Cornell University. He completed his internship at the Cornell Medical Center in New York and completed his training at Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon (New Hampshire ) from. Since 1996, Buckey is a professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He is also a flight surgeon in the Air Force Reserve Command.

Astronauts activity

Buckey applied for the astronaut group 13 (1990 ), and six years later for the Group 16 NASA. He came into the final selections, but was not selected.

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

On April 4, 1996 Buckey were again drawn as a payload specialist for Spacelab mission. Two years later, in April 1998, he participated aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS -90. The Neurolab 16-day mission served mainly the study of the effects of weightlessness on the brain and nervous system. Buckey led here he helped develop the experiment " Cardiovascular Adaptation to Zero Gravity".

Political activity

Buckey is a member of the Democratic Party and intended candidacy for the Senate election in 2008 in the state of New Hampshire. In the meantime, however, he retired back from the election campaign; the Democratic nomination went to Jeanne Shaheen, the then incumbent John E. Sununu defeated.

Private

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