Charles Lacy Veach
| Charles Lacy Veach | |
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| Country: | United States |
| Organization: | NASA |
| selected on | May 23, 1984 ( 10th NASA Group ) |
| Calls: | 2 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
April 28, 1991 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
November 1, 1992 |
| Time in space: | 18d 4h 18min |
| retired on | October 3, 1995 by death |
| Space flights | |
Charles Lacy Veach (born September 28, 1944 in Chicago , Illinois , † October 3, 1995 in Houston , Texas ) was an American astronaut .
education
Veach graduated from Punahou School in Hawaii in 1962, where he had moved with his childhood parents. He then studied mechanical engineering at the United States Air Force Academy and graduated in 1966 with a bachelor's degree .
US Air Force
He joined the US Air Force in 1967 and was deployed worldwide for the next 14 years. He flew 275 combat missions in the Vietnam War . He mainly flew the F-100 , F-111 and the F-105 .
He then became a member of the USAF Thunderbirds aerobatic team and flew the T-38 and later the F-16 . He had completed over 5,000 hours of flight.
NASA
In 1982 he came to NASA and was employed there as a test pilot and instructor for shuttle pilots.
In 1984 he was elected to NASA's 10th astronaut group and trained as a mission specialist for a year. His area of expertise was ISS robots .
STS-39
Veach had his first and shortest space mission as a mission specialist on the STS-39 mission with the Space Shuttle Discovery .
STS-39 was the first non-secret Shuttle Mission of the Ministry of Defense (Department of Defense; DoD). There were several shuttle flights for the DoD before, but these had been secret, no information about the payload, the purpose or success of the mission and its experiments was published. Only the MPEC experiment was classified as secret on this mission. The southern northern lights were also examined.
STS-52
His second flight took him into space on the Columbia space shuttle . As part of this mission, the Italian-American geodesy satellite LAGEOS 2 was deployed. French and American experiments were also carried out on board.
After the space flights
Veach developed cancer and died as an active astronaut on October 3, 1995 at his Houston home. He was buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Summary
| No | mission | function | Flight date | Flight duration |
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| 1 | STS-39 | Mission specialist | April 28 - May 6, 1991 | 8d 7h 22m |
| 2 | STS-52 | Mission specialist | October 22nd - November 1st, 1992 | 9d 20h 56m |
Private
Charles Lacy Veach was married with two children. His hobbies were surfing, cycling, reading and family activities.
See also
- List of spacemen
- Country statistics of manned spaceflight
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of manned space flights
Web links
- Short biography of Charles Lacy Veach at spacefacts.de
- NASA biography of Charles Lacy Veach (English; PDF)
- Biography of Charles Lacy Veach in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Veach, Charles Lacy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1995 |
| Place of death | Houston , Texas , United States |