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Jerome Apt

1949 - Today

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Jerome "Jay" Apt III (born April 28, 1949) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerome Apt is the 353rd most popular astronaut (up from 398th in 2019), the 12,670th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,949th in 2019) and the 173rd most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Jerome Apt ranks 353 out of 556. Before him are Yury Lonchakov, Scott Kelly, Naoko Yamazaki, Reinhold Ewald, Steven Lindsey, and Zhai Zhigang. After him are Michael Foale, Mike Melvill, Helen Sharman, Charles L. Veach, Guy Gardner, and Michael R. Clifford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jerome Apt ranks 733. Before him are Alfredo Quesada, Zyta Gilowska, Walter Browne, Daniel Leclercq, Hannu Siitonen, and Rick Rosenthal. After him are Haroun Kabadi, Brian Kerwin, Trevor Coker, Nancy Kyes, Jerry Harrison, and Lech Koziejowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerome Apt ranks 12,674 out of 20,380. Before him are Ellie Greenwich (1940), Marissa Mayer (1975), Alex Skolnick (1968), Lot M. Morrill (1813), Ben Vereen (1946), and Gene Sarazen (1902). After him are Melody Thomas Scott (1956), Reid Hoffman (1967), Alyson Noël (1965), Jon Hall (1950), Lee Daniels (1959), and Pamela Adlon (1966).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Jerome Apt ranks 173. Before him are Michael Coats (1946), Leroy Chiao (1960), Guion Bluford (1942), Karl Gordon Henize (1926), Scott Kelly (1964), and Steven Lindsey (1960). After him are Charles L. Veach (1944), Guy Gardner (1948), Michael R. Clifford (1952), Christopher Ferguson (1961), Janet L. Kavandi (1959), and Kenneth Cockrell (1950).

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