Information AboutJerome Apt |
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Apt graduated from Shady Side Academy and Harvard College . He earned a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1976. He joined NASA in 1980 as a research scientist, and in 1986 became an astronaut. He has flown on four space missions and has logged over 847 hours in space. In 1991 , Apt flew aboard Shuttle Atlantis where he made a Spacewalk , where, along with Jerry Ross , he manually deployed the Gamma Ray Observatory 's radio antenna when it failed to do so automatically. In 1992 , he flew aboard Shuttle Endeavour and performed Life Science experiments. In 1994 , Apt was part of the first Space Radar Laboratory. This lab studied the Earth . In 1996 , Apt flew aboard Shuttle Atlantis and visited the Russian Mir Space Station . Apt currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is the Executive Director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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