NAME:  Charles Lacy Veach (Mr.)
       NASA Astronaut
 
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE:  Born September 18, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, but
considers Honolulu, Hawaii, to be his hometown.  His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall E. Veach, reside in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:  Brown hair; hazel eyes; 5 feet 10 inches; 155 pounds.
 
EDUCATION:  Graduated from Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1962;  received
a bachelor of science degree in Engineering Management from the U.S. Air Force
Academy in 1966.
 
MARITAL STATUS:  Married to the former Alice Meigs Scott of Waycross, Georgia.
Her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Lee Scott, resides in Augusta, Georgia.  Her father,
Commander Frank V. Scott, Jr., is deceased.
 
CHILDREN:  Marshall Scott, January 7, 1972; Katherine Maile, October 9, 1974.
 
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS:  He enjoys surfing, bicycling, reading, and activities
with his family.
 
SPECIAL HONORS:  Distinguished Flying Cross with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Medal
with 13 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with 1 Oak Leaf
Cluster, and Purple Heart.
 
EXPERIENCE:  Veach was commissioned in the United States Air Force upon
graduation from the Air Force Academy.  He received his pilot wings at Moody
Air Force Base, Georgia, in 1967, and then attended fighter gunnery school at
Luke Air Force Base, Arizona.  Over the next 14 years, he served as a USAF
fighter pilot, flying the F-100 Super Sabre, the F-111 and the F-105
Thunderchief, on a variety of assignments in the United States, Europe and the
Far East, including a 275-mission combat tour in the Republic of Vietnam.  In
1976 and 1977 he was a member of the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron, the
Thunderbirds.  Veach left active duty in 1981, but continues to fly fighters as
an F-16 pilot with the Texas Air National Guard.  He has logged over 5,000
flying hours.
 
NASA EXPERIENCE:  Veach came to work for NASA in January 1982.  Employed as an
engineer and research pilot at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston,
his primary duty in that capacity was as an Instructor Pilot in the Shuttle
Training Aircraft -- the highly modified Gulfstream II's used to train
astronaut shuttle pilots to land the Space Shuttle.
 
Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984, Veach completed a one
year training and evaluation program in June 1985, qualifying him for
assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.  Since
then he has held a variety of technical assignments including flight software
verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), and capsule
communicator (CAPCOM) for STS 61-A, 61-B and 61-C.
 
Mr. Veach flew as a mission specialist on the crew of STS-39,the fortieth
mission of the Space Shuttle Program.  On this, the most complex Space Shuttle
mission to date, Veach was responsible for operating a group of instruments
which included an ultraviolet astronomical camera, an x-ray telescope and a
liquid helium-cooled infrared telescope which performed landmark observations
of the earth's atmosphere and the Aurora Australis -- the Southern Lights.  The
eight day unclassified Department of Defense mission aboard the orbiter,
Discovery, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 28, 1991,
and landed at Kennedy Space Center on May 6, 1991.
 
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT:  Mr. Veach is assigned as a mission specialist on the crew
of STS-52 scheduled for launch in the Fall of 1992.
 
AUGUST 1991