Jerome Apt
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| Jerome III "Jay" Apt | |
| Astronaut | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 28, 1949 Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Other occupation | Scientist |
| Time in space | 35d 07h 10m |
| Selection | 1985 NASA Group |
| Missions | STS-37, STS-47, STS-59, STS-79 |
| Mission insignia |     |
Jerome III "Jay" Apt, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project.
Apt graduated from Shady Side Academy and Harvard College. He earned a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1976. He joined NASA in 1980 as a research scientist, and in 1986 became an astronaut. He has flown on four space missions and has logged over 847 hours in space.
In 1991, Apt flew aboard shuttle Atlantis where he made two spacewalks, where, along with Jerry Ross, he manually deployed the Gamma Ray Observatory's radio antenna when it failed to do so automatically; on the next day they tested hardware later used on the International Space Station. In 1992, he flew aboard shuttle Endeavour and performed life science experiments. In 1994, Apt was part of the first Space Radar Laboratory. This lab studied the Earth. In 1996, Apt flew aboard shuttle Atlantis and visited the Russian Mir space station.
In 2003, Apt became the Executive Director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center and Associate Research Professor of the Tepper School of Business.
