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Dr. Jay C. Buckey, Jr., a former astronaut, is a Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and an adjunct professor at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering. He’s an expert in space physiology and medicine and is the author of Space Physiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Dr. Buckey flew in space as a payload specialist astronaut on the STS-90 Neurolab mission in 1998, where he completed 256 orbits of the Earth and logged 6.3 million miles. After the mission, he co-edited The Neurolab Spacelab Mission, which presented and explained Neurolab’s results. He also served as an alternate payload specialist astronaut for Spacelab Life Sciences 2 in 1993. Dr. Buckey has been involved in the design and development of flight hardware that flew on Spacelab missions. His current work at Dartmouth focuses on research and technology development to solve the biomedical problems of spaceflight. He is the team lead of the Technology Development Team for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. In addition to his NASA work, Dr. Buckey has served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, and has flown in F-16, F-4, T-38, B-52 and AWACS aircraft. He is a senior medical examiner for the FAA. He is a member of the Association of Space Explorers, the Aerospace Medical Association, the Association for Gravitational and Space Biology, and the Explorers Club. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.

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