The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
A draft of Jay Apt’s cover letter that was submitted with his Astronaut Candidate program application. Apt writes about his preference for working in team settings; making equipment; his experience working as director of JPL’s observatory; team building; his experience in laboratory physics; designing computer interfaces for experiments; shares confidence in doing near-earth science and engineering.