Dr. Jerome (Jay) Apt Papers and Photographs

Résumé du livre

The Dr. Jerome Apt Papers and Photographs documents the professional career and personal life of astronaut Dr. Jay Apt, as well as the respective and combined members of the Apt and Frank families. The bulk of the collection documents Apt's NASA career through official astronaut training documents and manuals, mission photographs, film, VHS and cassette tapes, CDs, floppy disks, correspondence, publicity, and ephemera. The collection also highlights Apt's tenure as director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History after leaving NASA and his time as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Jay Apt's youth and his love for model rocketry is documented through photographs, model rocketry catalogs, invoices, newsletters, and programs. Jay's education at Shadyside Academy, Harvard University, and MIT is documented through an Alumnus booklet, acceptance packages, certificates, correspondence, directories, invoices, registration receipts, and GRE correspondence and score card.
The Dr. Jerome Apt Papers and Photographs have been arranged into the five series, three of which have been further arranged into subseries.