Jay Buckey
NASA BioLab Researcher
Dr. Jay Buckey was a crew member on the Space Shuttle Columbia’s 16-day Neurolab mission from April 17 to May 3, 1998. The 7-member crew served as both experiment subjects and operators for 26 individual life science experiments focusing on the effects of microgravity on the brain and nervous system. The STS-90 flight orbited the Earth 256 times, covered 6.3 million miles, and logged over 381 hours in space.
Neurolab, a NASA research mission dedicated to the study of the neurosciences, focused on the most complex and least-understood part of the human body - the nervous system. This joint NASA-NIH sponsored mission explored five key areas affected by weightlessness: blood pressure control, balance, sleep, nervous system development, and the blending of vision with balance and position sense.
Jay is the author of Space Physiology (Oxford Press: 2006), which tells about the effects of weightlessness on the body.
He holds a B.A. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (1977) and an M.D. from Cornell in 1981, interning at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center and completing his residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Currently, Jay is a Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He was also a flight surgeon with the US Air Force Reserve for 8 years.
