Jerome Apt
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: April 28, 1949
Age: 70
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
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 5, 1991, 2:22 p.m.
Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-101 | STS-47
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 12, 1992, 2:23 p.m.
Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-101 | STS-59
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 4, 1994, 11:05 a.m.
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-79
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 26, 1996, 12:13 p.m.
Status: Success
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.
Falcon Heavy
STP-2 - Success
The STP-2 payload is composed of 25 small spacecraft. Included is COSMIC-2 constellation to provide radio occultation data, along with 8 cubesat nanosatellites. Other payloads include LightSail ca...
Long March 3
Beidou-3 IGSO-2 - Success
These two satellites will be used to provide global navigation coverage as part of the Chinese Beidou (Compass) satellite navigation system.
Ariane 5 ECA
Eutelsat 7C & AT&T T-16 - Success
Eutelsat 7C is based on an all-electric propulsion version of the SSL-1300 satellite platform. Equipped with 44 operational Ku-band transponders, the new satellite will be copositioned with Eutelsa...
Falcon 9 Block 5
RADARSAT Constellation - Success
The Radarsat Constellation Mission is a follow-on project to RADARSAT-2 currently developed by MDA. The constellation will consist of a fleet of three spacecraft, and be both complementary and a fo...
Long March 11
Jilin-1 & others - Success
The first sea launch of Long March 11 rocket. It carries 7 satellites, which include a new high-resolution Earth observation satellite Jilin-1 and several test satellites, verifying such technologi...
