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Oct 31, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Scientist known as father of China's space program dies

Full story: CTV.ca

He was 98. Qian, also known as Tsien Hsue-shen, began his career in the U.S. and was regarded as one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics before returning to China in 1955, driven out of the United States at the height of anticommunist fervour.

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Sol

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Oct 31, 2009
 
yay
star trek

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Nov 1, 2009
 
visit this website:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-ne... #

So when will chinese scientists invent a space drive like you see in science fiction films?
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He also helped in the USA space program, he was a genius and a great man.
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Sulu will boldly go where USA wouldn't allow, seems like long long time over Von Braun...

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Nov 1, 2009
 
So saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

God bless you!!amen!!!

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i thought china was fathered by a panda!

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Nov 1, 2009
 
superdelegate wrote:
i thought china was fathered by a panda!
But China didnt invent Panda.
Snowflake

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Because of the racist policies of the USA we lost a great men and a genius to China. He also did a lot for the American space program but because of the color of his skin he was not appreciated here.
MajorMalfunction

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Nov 2, 2009
 
For an good autobiography of this guys life read "Thread of the silkworm" by Iris Chang...just goes to prove what damage the McCarthy Era did for the US....
MajorMalfunction

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Nov 2, 2009
 
NW Hominid wrote:
Sulu will boldly go where USA wouldn't allow, seems like long long time over Von Braun...
He was actually one of that scientists that evaluated Von Braun ideas when von braun was captured after the second world war....
MajorMalfunction

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Nov 2, 2009
 
sorry not 'auto' biography just biography....by Iris Chang...mind went poo poo for a minute!...
MajorMalfunction

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Snowflake wrote:
Because of the racist policies of the USA we lost a great men and a genius to China. He also did a lot for the American space program but because of the color of his skin he was not appreciated here.
For once snowflake I agree with you..
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Nov 2, 2009
 
You agree with me in many things you just do not know it I tell it like it is, just like I told you about wing Chun Kung Fu.

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Nov 4, 2009
 
It's a shame America didn't treat him better. We owe a lot to him.
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Snowflake wrote:
Because of the racist policies of the USA we lost a great men and a genius to China. He also did a lot for the American space program but because of the color of his skin he was not appreciated here.
He was suspected by the FBI to be a communist sympathizer and the FBI asked his company to fire him. They did hire him despite the "color" of his skin.

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the examiner wrote:
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He was suspected by the FBI to be a communist sympathizer and the FBI asked his company to fire him. They did hire him despite the "color" of his skin.
He was under house arrest for five years and then deported. This is the story I read.

http://disgrasian.com/2009/11/r-i-p-qian-xues...
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Pamela in red wrote:
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He was under house arrest for five years and then deported.
The standard method in any serious organization usually found in a competition clause. To space out the time interval before services can be rendered to a rival shop.

Here it's useful to note that this was a man with very marketable skills and perhaps it's only a matter of course that he should apply his acquired talents among his own kinds.
INK

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Yellow Peril wrote:
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The standard method in any serious organization usually found in a competition clause. To space out the time interval before services can be rendered to a rival shop.
Here it's useful to note that this was a man with very marketable skills and perhaps it's only a matter of course that he should apply his acquired talents among his own kinds.
Are you talking to yourself again indiot? It does not make sense to anyone reading your indlish!
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INK!

Could be the chosen screen name here suggest you rather be a stray blot of drying fluid on your mother's thigh , as opposed to the final product, when the business had been transacted.;)

Another couch session with the good trusted doctor. You can settle the bill on the way out.
INK

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Nov 4, 2009
 
BSA / dr.fraud/platinum-chrome etc.
Are you trying to save your many ugly indiot faces? What have you done to be so embarrassed? Your mother must be very sad that her name for you is not good enough as you grow up. Stop this silly indiot practice.
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