Bucky, Jay Clark

• 1973 - Graduated from W. Tresper Clarke High School in Westbury, New York .
• 1977 - received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University .
• 1981 - received the title of doctor of medicine from Cornwall University
• 1981-1982 - internship at the New York Hospital of the Cornwall Medical Center ( Eng. New-York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center ) and the final medical internship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ( Eng. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ).
• 1982-1984 - training at the Southwestern Medical Center University of Texas ( Eng. Southwestern Medical Center University of Texas ) for a NASA scholarship in space biology.

• From 1984 to 1995, he worked at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center.
  • Since 1984 - Research Instructor, Department of Medicine
  • since 1986 - assistant professor of medicine
  • in 1995 - deputy professor of medicine.
• 1995 - at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Since 1996 - Deputy Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School ( Dartmouth Medical School ).
• Currently - Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth School of Medicine

In 1987-1995, he was an aviation medicine doctor at the 457th Tactical Fighter Squadron at the US Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth , Texas

• c September 18, 1989 underwent a medical examination and interview at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in the final stage of the 13th set of NASA astronauts.
• December 6, 1991 - was selected as a candidate for payload specialists for flight with Spacelab laboratory under the SLS-2 program ( STS-58 ).
• October 29, 1992 - Appointed as a backup specialist payload.
• since December 3, 1995 - underwent a medical examination and interview at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in the final stage of NASA's 16th set of astronauts.
• April 4, 1996 - he was selected as a candidate for payload specialists for the Neurolab flight, in May he began preparations for the flight.
• April 28, 1997 - Appointed Principal Payload Specialist to the STS-90 Mission Crew.

From April 17 to May 3, 1998 he made a space flight as a payload specialist in the crew of the Columbia shuttle under the STS-90 mission program.

The mission’s main payload is the Neurolab lab. The main experiment is the adaptation of the cardiovascular system to zero gravity.

In flight, Bucky performed 26 medical experiments to study the effects of microgravity on the human brain and nervous activity, in which the remaining crew members acted as objects of study.

The flight duration was 15 days 21 hours 49 minutes 59 seconds.

In 2008, Jay Clark Bucky ran as a Democratic candidate in the US Senate election from New Hampshire . The main idea of ​​the program is the transition to a new energy industry that is independent of petroleum products. Withdrew in favor of another Democratic candidate, Gene Sheikhin .

In 2018, Bucky participated in research at the Marson Australian Antarctic station using virtual reality . The expedition members used virtual reality headsets to view Australian beaches, landscapes of European nature, North American nature, forests and the urban environment. The study was conducted to develop methods of psychological support for participants in future long space expeditions - in particular, Martian ones. ^[one]

• Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth School of Medicine.

• 1998 NASA Space Flight Medal.

1. Space encyclopedia
2. The site of the election campaign-2008 (English) (unavailable link from 09/05/2013 [2191 days] - history , copy )