Goodnight, Qian Xuesen
Qian Xuesen, the brains behind China’s jet propolsion technology and also rocket technology, including technology that took the recent Shenzhou rockets into space past away at the age of 98 in Beijing yesterday:
Qian Xuesen, a former Caltech rocket scientist who helped establish the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before being deported in 1955 on suspicion of being a Communist and who became known as the father of China’s space and missile programs, has died. He was 98.
Qian, also known as Tsien Hsue-shen, died Saturday in Beijing, China’s state news agency reported. The cause was not given.
Honored in his homeland for his “eminent contributions to science,” Qian was credited with leading China to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, Silkworm anti-ship missiles, weather and reconnaissance satellites and to put a human in space in 2003.
He must have had a chauffeur driven Chang’an Volvo?
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