Jan Kowalski | Jerome Apt |
Geburtsdatum | 28.04.1949 |
Nationalität | USA |
Weltraumagentur | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Status | In Rente |
Astronautentyp | Staatliche Agentur |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Apt |
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.