American astronaut, scientist, and professor (born 1949)
Jay Apt
Born
Jerome Apt III
(1949-04-28) April 28, 1949 (age 75)
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education
Harvard University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Time in space
35d 7h 10min
Selection
NASA Group 11 (1985)
Missions
STS-37 STS-47 STS-59 STS-79
Mission insignia
Jerome "Jay" Apt III (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before becoming an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Pioneer Venus 1978 space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from ground-based observatories.
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