Jerome Apt
Jerome Apt is an astronaut from United States of America affiliated with the government agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration, embarked on 4 space flights and engaging in 2 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.
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.
- Date of Birth: 04/28/1949
- Status: Retired
- First Flight: 04/05/1991
- Last Flight: 09/16/1996
- In Space: No
Launches
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-37
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-47
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-79
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-59
Spacewalks
STS-37 EVA 1 (Placeholder)
The spacewalk began at 04/07/1991 00:00 UTC and ended at 04/07/1991 04:26 UTC on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (LEO) for a total of 4 hours and 26 minutes.
STS-37 EVA 2 (Placeholder)
The spacewalk began at 04/08/1991 00:00 UTC and ended at 04/08/1991 05:47 UTC on the Low Earth Orbit for a total of 5 hours and 47 minutes.
