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Qian Xuesen, Father of China’s Space Program, Is Dead at 98

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Mr. Qian was a brilliant rocket scientist who led China’s space and military rocketry efforts after he was drummed out of the U.S. during the redbaiting of the McCarthy era.

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