NEW PODCAST EPISODE: In the third part of our series on the Red Scare, we discuss the rise of Tsien Hsue-Shen, a promising aeronautical engineer who went from being on Caltech's radar to the radar of the FBI.
, we round out a three-part series on the Red Scare and examine how McCarthyist fallout at JPL played a role in the weaponization of space.Brilliant aeronautical engineer Tsien Hsue-Shen is a rising star in the aerospace industry. Courted by Caltech to lead its aeronautics department, Tsien files to become a full-fledged U.S. citizen. Unfortunately, Tsien’s connections to the Suicide Squad, the name given to the early rocket pioneers at JPL, send up a red flag to the FBI.
As we’ll hear, Frank Malina — another of the influential early rocket engineers — isn’t the only scientist whose citizenship blows up in his face as a result of his alleged communist affiliations. Tsien soon discovers that working in the aerospace industry while being Chinese-American has a pretty short half-life of its own.Getty Images)The Curse of Tsien — the shocking story of how the U.S. lost out of its most brilliant rocketry minds to ChinaTune in as our host M.G.
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