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Thread ID: 10509 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-10-15
2003-10-15 19:30 | User Profile
Chinese Rocket Scientist Had Career Roots in U.S.
[QUOTE] Chinese Rocket Scientist Had Career Roots in U.S. BEIJING -- 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. During World War II, Tsien helped to design ballistic missiles for the U.S. military. In 1945, as an Army colonel with a security clearance, he was sent to Europe on a mission to examine captured rocket technology from Nazi Germany. Tsien studied the German V-2 rocket and interviewed its chief designer, Wernher von Braun, who would go on to play a key role in the American manned space program. As anticommunist unease in the United States mounted, the FBI confronted Tsien in 1950 with a U.S. Communist Party document from 1938 that listed him as a member.
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2003-10-15 20:35 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Chinese Rocket Scientist Had Career Roots in U.S. [COLOR=Red]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. During World War II, Tsien helped to design ballistic missiles for the U.S. military.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]I believe he is also regarded as the father of the Chinese hydrogen bomb. Another great success for the simple American view of assisting foreigners.
2003-10-19 13:27 | User Profile
Well, if another nation has a hydrogen bomb than Russia, almost everytime there was a US connection, and often they learned from Europeans too.
Just think about Israel, Pakistan, India...
But at the moment the only partly rational state with a bright future if it can handle the social crisis of the new economic structures, is China.
If the Europeans will not make it, they are the last hope of mankind for a progressive and collectivistic society with Eugenic programs.