Charles Lacy Veach (September 18, 1944 – October 3, 1995) was a United States Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot and NASA astronaut.

His name still adorns the museum display F-16 just inside the front gate of the Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Texas.

[1] Veach came to work for NASA in January 1982 as an engineer and research pilot at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Most recently, Lacy had worked as the lead astronaut for the development and operation of robotics for the International Space Station.

STS-52 was a 10-day mission aboard the Orbiter Columbia during which the crew successfully deployed the Laser Geodynamic Satellite (LAGEOS), a joint Italian-American project.