Charles Edward Jones

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Charles Jones
USAF Astronaut
Nationality American
Status Deceased
Born November 8, 1952
Clinton, Indiana
Rank Colonel, USAF
Selection 1982 USAF Group
Missions None
For other persons named Charles Jones, see Charles Jones (disambiguation).

Colonel Charles Edward ("Chuck") Jones (November 8, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was a United States Air Force officer, a computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.

Jones was born in Clinton, Indiana. He graduated from Wichita High School East in 1970. He entered the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1982, and was scheduled to fly on mission STS-71-B in December 1986, but the mission was cancelled after the Challenger Disaster in January 1986. He left the Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1987.

He was killed at the age of 48 in the attacks of September 11, 2001, aboard American Airlines Flight 11. He had been living as a retired US Air Force Colonel in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife Jeanette.

See also: Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks

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