photo Jerome Apt
First name and last name Jerome Apt
Date of birth 28.04.1949
Nationality USA
Space Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Status Retired
Type of astronaut Government agency
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Apt

Missions:

  • STS-37
  • STS-47
  • STS-59
  • STS-79

Additional information Jerome Apt

Jerome "Jay" Apt III, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became 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.