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Colonel Charles Edward ("Chuck") Jones (November 8, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was a
Charles Edward Jones
Memorial Guide: National 9/11 Memorial Retrieved December 11, 2011
"Astronaut Biography: Charles Jones"
Space Facts, Retrieved June 24, 2013 {{Authority control 1952 births 2001 deaths American astronauts American aerospace engineers United States Air Force Academy alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni United States Air Force colonels American Airlines Flight 11 victims American terrorism victims People murdered in New York City Male murder victims Terrorism deaths in New York (state) People from Bedford, Massachusetts People from Clinton, Indiana 20th-century American engineers Military personnel from Massachusetts
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officer, an aeronautical engineer, computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program. He was killed during the September 11 attacks, aboard American Airlines Flight 11.
Life
Charles Edward Jones was born November 8, 1952, in Clinton, Indiana. He graduated from Wichita East High School in 1970, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautics, Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, and received a Master of Science degree in Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980. He entered the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1982, and was scheduled to fly on mission Canceled Space Shuttle missions, STS-71-B in December 1986, but the mission was canceled after the Space Shuttle Challenger, ''Challenger'' Disaster in January 1986. He left the Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1987. He later worked for Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., and was Systems Program Director for Intelligence and Information Systems, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. 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 United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force Colonel in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife Jeanette. At the National 9/11 Memorial, Jones is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-74.Memorial Guide: National 9/11 Memorial Retrieved December 11, 2011
See also
* Casualties of the September 11 attacksReferences
Inline citations
General references
"Astronaut Biography: Charles Jones"
Space Facts, Retrieved June 24, 2013 {{Authority control 1952 births 2001 deaths American astronauts American aerospace engineers United States Air Force Academy alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni United States Air Force colonels American Airlines Flight 11 victims American terrorism victims People murdered in New York City Male murder victims Terrorism deaths in New York (state) People from Bedford, Massachusetts People from Clinton, Indiana 20th-century American engineers Military personnel from Massachusetts