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Wow, during the red scare days the US deported a rocket scientist - Tsien Hsue-she - back to China where he bootstrapped their entire rocket program. Did not kn

Wow, during the red scare days the US deported a rocket scientist - Tsien Hsue-she - back to China where he bootstrapped their entire rocket program. Did not know that. Wonder where they would be today if the US decided to keep him in cal tech.

dikei 5y ago
I don't think it would matter much. Someone else would have lead the program, there were never a scarcity of talented Chinese scientists/engineers.
bawolff 5y ago
Which is ironic as usa benefited a lot from scientists who fled germany in the lead up to ww2.