Gaffney Credit - www.spacefacts.de

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. MD

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Payload Specialist. Inactive Entered space service: 1 January 1984. Left space service: 14 June 1991. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 9.09 days.

NASA Official Biography

Francis Andrew Gaffney, M.D. was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Gaffney graduated from Carlsbad High School in 1964, received a bachelor of arts from the University of California-Berkley in 1968, received a doctor of medicine degree from the University of New Mexico in 1972 and received a fellowship in cardiology from the University of Texas in 1975.

He completed a 3-year medical internship and residency at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975, and went on to receive a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Texas' Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, becoming a faculty associate and an assistant professor of medicine there in 1979. From 1979-1987, he served as assistant director of echocardiography at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas.

Gaffney served as a visiting senior scientist with NASA from 1987-1989. He was a co-investigator on an experiment aboard STS-40 that studied human cardiovascular adaptation to space flight, and served as Payload Specialist 1 (PS1).

• 5 June 1991 Flight: STS-40. Flight Up: STS-40. Flight Back: STS-40. Flight Time: 9.09 days.

1987 March - STS-71-E (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: STS-71-E. Planned SLS-1 shuttle mission. Cancelled after Challenger disaster.

• NASA Astronaut Biographies, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1995-present. Accessed at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/.