Chung Yue Obituary

Mr. Chung Tung Yue "C.T." a native of China, died on October 25, 2014 at the age of 84. Mr. Yue never married. His parents, brothers and sisters all predeceased him in China. His only living relatives are nephews in Nanning City, Guangxi Province, where C.T. was born in June 26, 1930.

C.T. Yue emigrated from China, during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. He applied to, and attended the National Military Academy of Taiwan in their Air Force Program, becoming a Captain. He immigrated to Canada in 1966, and subsequently to Texas in 1971 to obtain his B.S.M.E degree and M.S.M.E . from The University of Texas. He obtained a PHD degree after spending a year with Beech Aircraft in Wichita KS. Upon graduation he joined Northrop Aerospace, in Huntsville, Alabama, where his involvement was so important that two Alabama US. Senators requested that Congress to keep him in the United States.

He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in November 1972, and also became a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas in October 1977. He joined the National Society of Professional Engineers in October 1981.

Mr. Yue spent much of the 1980's at the Johnson Space Center at Nassau Bay, Texas, with NASA, and received an award from the Space Shuttle Support Team on the First Columbia Shuttle Flight in 1981. Mr. Yue had tremendous mathematical knowledge and designed the trajectory for orbital flights to connect missiles with the space station.

He joined the HQ Air Force Space Command Team at Peterson Air Force Base in 1984 in Operations as an Orbital Trajectory Analyst and presented many papers on the subject of mathematical algorithms.

Mr. Yue was an important contributor to the success of the U.S. space program and received several citations from the Air Force. Mr. Yue retired in 1996. He was well recognized in the Rockrimmon neighborhood of Colorado Springs, for his courtesy, smile, humbleness, intelligence, daily walks, and simple lifestyle.