Jerome Apt
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: April 28, 1949
Age: 71
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.
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-37
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 5, 1991, 2:22 p.m.
Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-101 | STS-47
Lockheed Martin Space Operations | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 12, 1992, 2:23 p.m.
Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-101 | STS-59
Lockheed Martin Space Operations | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 4, 1994, 11:05 a.m.
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-79
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 26, 1996, 12:13 p.m.
Status:
Mission: Human Exploration
STS-79 was the 17th flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis, and the 79th mission of the Space Shuttle program. The flight saw Atlantis dock with the Russian space station Mir to deliver equipment, supplies and relief personnel. A variety of scientific experiments were also conducted aboard Atlantis by her crew. It was the first shuttle mission to rendezvous with a fully assembled Mir, and the fourth rendezvous of a shuttle to the space station.
Low Earth Orbit
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Soyuz 2.1B
Gonets-M30, Gonets-M31, Gonets-M32
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationGonets-M are an upgraded version of Gonets satellites, derived from military communications system Strela-3. Gonets-M constellation is tasked with...
Soyuz STA
Falcon Eye 2
Soyuz Launch Complex - Kourou, French GuianaFalcon Eye 2 is a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates. Built by Airbus Defense and Space with an optical imaging p...
H-IIA
JDRS-1
Yoshinobu Launch Complex - Tanegashima, JapanJDRS-1 is a Japanese Data Relay Satellite.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 15
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 5
Chang'e 5
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChang'e 5 is China's robotic lunar sample return mission, which is set to bring back at least 2 kg of lunar soils and rock samples. The probe will ...
