Jerome Apt
Jerome Apt is a government astronaut from United States of America, affiliated with NASA.
During their career, Jerome Apt flew on 4 spaceflights and completed 2 spacewalks, logging 35 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes, 25 seconds in space.
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.
Career Statistics
| Date of Birth | 04/28/1949 |
|---|---|
| Status | Retired |
| First Flight | 04/05/1991 |
| Last Flight | 09/16/1996 |
| In Space | No |
| Time in Space | 35 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes, 25 seconds |
| EVA Time | 10 hours, 13 minutes |
| Landings | 4 |
Spaceflights by Jerome Apt
Explore the 4 spaceflights Jerome Apt participated in during their astronaut career, including mission details, launch vehicles, and destinations.
Spacewalks by Jerome Apt
Discover the 2 spacewalks Jerome Apt performed during their career, logging a total of 10 hours, 13 minutes outside a spacecraft.
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.
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.