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

[Kosmos327 at aol.com]

Keith,
 
Your point is well noted. However, on the other side of the coin:
 
Had Wernher von Braun lived it's likely he would have suffered the  same fate 
as his top affiliate, Aurthur Rudolph, and been forced to renounce his  
citizenship and leave the country, or stand trial for his use of  forced labor at 
the Mittelwerk.
 
His own death may have allowed him to save face.
 
Regards,
 
David L. Rickman

 
In a message dated 10/1/2008 5:26:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
kgottschalk at uwc.ac.za writes:

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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