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Friday, October 17, 2003 |
Common Dreams: "The founder of China's rocketry program that on Wednesday launched its first astronaut into space began his career building ballistic missiles for the U.S. government during World War II.
Tsien Hsue-shen, 92, was a U.S. Army officer, a co-founder of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Colleagues called him one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics.
Then, in 1955, Tsien was driven out of the United States at the height of anticommunist fervor."
Even anticommunism serves its heavenly purpose.
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© Copyright 2003 Hetty Litjens.
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