F. Drew Gaffney

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F. Drew Gaffney
Born	(1946-06-09) June 9, 1946 (age 78) Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Medical Doctor
Space career
NASA Payload Specialist
Time in space	9d 2h 14m
Missions	STS-40
Mission insignia

Francis Andrew "Drew" Gaffney is an American doctor and former astronaut. He previously worked for NASA and participated in the STS-40 Space Life Sciences (SLS 1) Space Shuttle mission in 1991 as a payload specialist.

Gaffney was a co-investigator on an experiment that studied human cardiovascular adaption to space flight.^[1] The SLS-1 mission crew completed over 18 experiments in nine days, bringing back more medical data than any previous NASA flight.

Dr. Gaffney became a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, serving from 1992 to 2000. He is a professor of medicine (cardiovascular disease) at Vanderbilt University^[2] and continues to serve as a consultant and reviewer for human spaceflight-related studies.

He is currently a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. Gaffney has over 50 publications in the areas of cardiovascular regulation and space physiology.