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Old 03-29-2020, 07:11 AM
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It is in 1936 that the famous professor of aeronautics Von Karman receives in USA, a young Chinese student H.S.Tsien who come to complete his studies. This student, specializing in rocketry, quickly proved to be extremely brilliant. He even participated in the aeronautical technology research tour in Germany in 1945. He worked on American rockets in prestigious centers such as JPL and Caltech and in 1949 applied for American nationality.
However, it was soon the time of Mac Carthy's Red Scare and the hunt for Communists.
Accused wrongly of red sympathy, Tsien undergoes during five years a whole series of vexations: interrogations, imprisonment, prohibition to leave the country, house arrest, etc ...
Deeply disgusted, he decided to leave the country which was to become his own and to return to China now under the control of Mao Tse Toung, which he achieved in 1955.
He is welcomed with open arms and put at the head of the research program of the People's Republic of China on rockets.
In a few years, it will equip China with long-range nuclear missiles first and then with satellite launchers.
Thus, on April 24, 1970, China became the fifth space power by putting 173 kg into China1 orbit, carried by a "Long March 1" rocket with 100 tonnes of thrust.
Nowadays, China is the country that launches the most rockets, which is able to send men into orbit (the only ones with Russia), which targets the Moon (where several of its robots are currently activating ) and is preparing to send a space station into orbit for the third time!
The model is from Markcable design.








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