Editing Jay C. Buckey

{{short description|American astronaut and physician (born 1956)}}
{{Infobox astronaut
| image         = Jay C. Buckey 08-23-2007.JPG
| caption       = Buckey in 2007
| type          = [[Dartmouth Medical School|Dartmouth]] Payload Specialist
| status        =
| nationality   = American
|birth_name          = Jay Clark Buckey, Jr.
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1956|6|6}}
| birth_place   = [[New York City]]
| occupation    = [[Medical Doctor]]
| selection     =
| time          = 15d 21h 50m
| mission       = [[STS-90]]
| insignia      = [[Image:Sts-90-patch.svg|30px]]
|}}
'''Jay Clark Buckey, Jr.''' (born June 6, 1956, in [[New York City]]) is an American [[physician]] and [[astronaut]] who flew aboard one [[Space Shuttle]] mission ([[STS-90]]) as a [[Payload Specialist]].<ref name="bionasa"/> Buckey briefly ran for the Democratic nomination to challenge New Hampshire Senator [[John E. Sununu]], a first term Republican, when he was up for re-election in 2008. Buckey withdrew from the race when former Governor [[Jeanne Shaheen]] entered the race.<ref>{{cite news|title=Buckey withdraws, clearing Dem field for Shaheen in Senate race|date=February 12, 2008|url=https://www.fosters.com/story/news/local/2008/02/12/buckey-withdraws-clearing-dem-field/52635485007/|publisher=Fosters Daily Democrat|access-date=March 3, 2023}}</ref>

==Education==
Buckey holds a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree 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 residence at [[Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center]].  Currently, Buckey is a [[Professor]] of Medicine at the [[Geisel School of Medicine]]. He was also a [[flight surgeon]] with the [[U.S. Air Force Reserve]] for 8 years.<ref name="bionasa">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/buckey.pdf | title=Biographical Data: Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. M.D. Payload Specialist |publisher=NASA |access-date=January 10, 2021| date=May 1998}}</ref>

==Spaceflight experience==
[[Image:Jay Buckey.jpg|thumb|Astronaut Buckey]]In 1998 he was a [[Payload Specialist]] aboard NASA [[Space Shuttle]] flight [[STS-90]] as part of the [[Neurolab]] mission from April 17 to May 3, 1998. Aboard the Neurolab Mission, Buckey was the [[Payload Specialist]] for the experiment "[[Cardiovascular Adaptation to Zero-Gravity]]" and assisted with other Spacelab Life Sciences experiments. During the 16-day Spacelab flight, the seven person crew aboard [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] 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 him over 381 hours in space.<ref>{{cite news|title=STS-90 Columbia|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-90.htm
|website=spacefacts.de|access-date=March 3, 2023}}</ref>

==Politics==
{{Main|New Hampshire United States Senate election, 2008}}

==Research==

In 2018, Buckey was part of research using [[virtual reality]], at the [[Australian Antarctic Division]]'s [[Mawson Station]], wherein the expeditioners used VR headsets to view Australian beach scenes, European nature scenes, and North American nature scenes of forests and urban environments, which were different from the isolation of the whiteness and silence of Antarctica. The research will inform psychological techniques to support long duration spaceflight such as for astronauts going to Mars.<ref name="2018-10-10_ABC">[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-10/virtual-reality-on-icy-continent-helping-astronauts/10356956  Virtual reality beaches in Antarctica beating isolation and helping future astronauts], Carla Howarth, [[ABC News Online]], 2018-10-10</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/buckey_jay.htm Spacefacts biography of Jay C. Buckey]

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