Jay Apt

Jerome “Jay” Apt III (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before becoming 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.

Birthdate:	April 28, 1949
Birthplace:	Springfield, Massachusetts
Marital status:	married
Children:	two
Selection date:	June 4, 1985
Selection group:	NASA-11
Position:	Mission Specialist
Status:	Retired March 5, 1997

Missions

No.	Mission	Position	Time	Duration
1	STS-37 Atlantis	MS	April 05 – 11, 1991	5d 23h 32m
2	STS-47 Endeavour	MS	September 12 – 20, 1992	7d 22h 30m
3	STS-59 Endeavour	MS	April 09 – 20, 1994	11d 05h 49m
4	STS-79 Atlantis	MS	September 16 – 26, 1996	10d 03h 18m
Total				35d 07h 09m

EVAs

No.	Date	Together with	Time	Main tasks and notes
1	April 7, 1991	Jerry Ross	4h 26m	Deploying the large radio antenna of the GRO
2	April 8, 1991	Jerry Ross	5h 47m	Testing concepts for getting around the large space structures using CETA
	Total EVA Time		10h 13m