Jerome Apt
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | June 4, 1985 (16th NASA Group) |
| Calls: | 4 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
April 5, 1991 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
September 26, 1996 |
| Time in space: | 35d 7h 10min |
| EVA inserts: | 2 |
| EVA total duration: | 10h 49min |
| retired on | May 1997 |
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Jerome "Jay" Apt III (born April 28, 1949 in Springfield , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American physicist and former astronaut .
Life
Born in Massachusetts, grew Apt in Pittsburgh ( Pennsylvania on), where he attended after elementary school, the Shadyside Academy. He studied physics at Harvard College, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following his excellent Bachelor's degree in 1971, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and worked there on his doctorate, which he received in 1976.
After his appointment as a doctor of physics remained Apt few months at MIT and conducted research in the field of laser - spectroscopy . Then he went back to Harvard. At the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, he worked on the Pioneer Venus probes that examined Venus in 1978 . He then headed the Harvard Department of Applied Sciences until he switched to NASA.
In 1980, Apt joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and worked in the Earth and Space Sciences Division on questions about the solar system in general, and the planets Venus and Mars in particular. A year later he was appointed director of JPL's own observatory. The Table Mountain Facility is located in an extensive wooded area near the village of Wrightwood, around 90 kilometers east of Los Angeles . 1982 Apt went to Houston ( Texas ) and spent three years at the Johnson Space Center in shuttle missions in the mission control operates.
Astronaut activity
Apt was selected as a candidate astronaut by NASA in June 1985. After one year of basic training as a mission specialist, he worked on techniques for maintaining the Hubble space telescope and building the International Space Station .
On April 5, 1991, Apt took off on its maiden flight ( STS-37 ). Since the main antenna of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , which was deployed on this mission, could not be extended, Apt and his colleague Jerry Ross carried out an exit (EVA) on the third day of the flight , which was not intended. A jammed antenna mast was released. The two of them did a planned EVA the next day to carry out locomotion tests for a space station building. On April 11, the mission landed at Edwards Air Force Base .
The STS-47 mission started on September 12, 1992 . On board 43 experiments of various kinds were carried out, for example it was tested whether hornets had the ability to build honeycombs in weightlessness . The result was negative. Experiments were also carried out in the medical field. On September 20, they landed on the shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center .
The STS-59 mission started on April 9, 1994. A large number of radar and photo recordings were made and physical and biological experiments were carried out at an orbit height of 224 km. The flight ended on April 20th.
The launch of STS-79 to Mir took place on September 16, 1996, where the mission also ended later. After coupling with the space station, the spacemen had a four-day flight together. During these days, the crew member John Blaha , who later returned to Earth with STS-81 , was exchanged for Shannon Lucid , who carried out a long stay on the Mir. After exchanging materials, the mission returned to Earth on September 26, 1996.
In late May 1997, Apt retired from the astronaut corps and has since been director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
Honors
In 2013 he was elected one of 403 new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Private
Apt and his wife Eleanor have two daughters. He is a radio amateur with the callsign N5QWL.
Web links
- Short biography of Jerome Apt at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Jerome Apt (English; PDF)
- Biography of Jerome Apt in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Historic Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ N5QWL in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) database
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Apt, Jerome |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Apt, Jay III |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Springfield , Massachusetts , USA |