[FPSPACE] images of 98-year-old Qian Xuesen

[Keith Gottschalk]

      Wernher von Braun's father lived until 96 yrs old. Had von B not
ignored his doctor's urgings to have his colon polyps checked,  so
discovering in time the colon cancer that killed his mom, he too might
have lived until 96 y. o., passing away only this year.

    It is a sobering warning to all of us how someone as rational in
safety checks as a rocket engineer in his work, failed to be rational on
a medical matter in his personal life, with fatal consequences.    - 
Keith

>>> <jeoberg at comcast.net> 10/01/08 12:02 AM >>>
>
>I hadn't seen this idealized portrait of Qian Xuesen:
>http://www.defensetech.org/images/Chinese%20space%20god.jpg 
>..but there was a Xinhua image of an official visiting him in his
hospital bed,
>recently. He is now 98 years old.

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