10 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- Father of Chinese Space Program Dies 31OCT09 10NOV09

Father of the Chinese
space program dies

BY CRAIG COVAULT
SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: November 2, 2009


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The father of China's space and strategic rocket program Tsien Hsue-shen, who worked initially on U.S. rocket development, helped bring Werner Von Braun to the U.S. then was wrongly deported back to China in the 1950s for alleged ties with communist China, died in Beijing Oct. 31 at age 98. (He has also gone by the name of Qian Xuesen.) ... [more]

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