Satcher, Robert 'Bobby' Lee Jr.
1965- · Contribution: 2009
Orthopedic surgeon and astronaut
First orthopedic surgeon to travel into space; bone cancer specialist
Portraits are AI-generated interpretations, not photographs.
Quick facts
- Born
- 1965, Hampton, Virginia
- Active since
- 1994
- Category
- Science & Medicine
- Best known for
- First orthopedic surgeon in space
Impact on the world
Satcher combined medicine, engineering, and spaceflight, bringing an orthopedic surgeon's expertise to bear on the problem of how the human skeleton fares in space.
Sources
- NASA official biography
1 more sources and references are available to members.
Related visionaries
Cowings, Patricia
1948-
Autogenic-feedback training exercise (AFTE) for space motion sickness
Alexander, Claudia
1959-2015
Planetary science mission leadership
Kountz, Samuel L.
1930-1981
Kidney transplant rejection research and technique development
Black, Keith L.
1957-present
Neurosurgery and brain-tumor research; pioneered methods to open the blood-brain barrier so chemotherapy can reach tumors, and developed dendritic-cell immunotherapy (cancer vaccines) for brain tumors