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| Born | Jerome Apt III April 28, 1949 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 35d 7h 10min |
| Selection | NASA Group 11 (1985) |
| Missions | STS-37 STS-47 STS-59 STS-79 |
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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.