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I was just trying to point out that it's not like the US's space exploration program was built from the ground up on US soil, it involved importing expertise. T

by err4nt 13y ago

I was just trying to point out that it's not like the US's space exploration program was built from the ground up on US soil, it involved importing expertise. That's what China seems to have done here too - imported expertise to kick-start a program. I don't see anything wrong with it, just figured some people may not be aware of that part of US history.

w1ntermute 13y ago
> That's what China seems to have done here too No, it wasn't. America intentionally established Operation Paperclip with the intention of recruiting German scientists. The Chinese didn't have to do anything to get Qian (and most likely weren't even thinking about space in 1950) - America just handed him to them, thanks to the US government's enormous stupidity.