member of the French National Academy of Air and Space. In 2006, he won the Dirk Brouwer Award, awarded by the American Astronautical Society, for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of space flight mechanics and astrodynamics. Death Vinh died at 2:39 p.m. Saturday, July 23, at his home in Costa Mesa, California, at the age of 92. References 1930 births 2022 deaths Vietnamese emigrants to the United States Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War South Vietnamese military personnel South Vietnam Air Force generals and air marshals Vietnamese writers Writers of Vietnamese descent University of Michigan faculty Vietnamese anti-communists People from Yên Bái province