Tinus (Qian Xuesen) was a Chinese-born engineer who worked at Caltech and JPL, was detained under McCarthyist suspicion of communist sympathies, was deported in a prisoner exchange, and then founded China's entire space program and ICBM development.
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“there's a Chinese man called Tinus who was uh born in the early 20th century...he jump started China's entire uh space program as well as China development of icbms”
Created: 8/11/2026, 8:00:09 AM
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