"Father" of China's space program dies aged 98

2009/10/31 04:50:55 @Reuters: International News

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, widely considered the father of the country's nuclear missile and space program, has died at the age of 98, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wVPDL7AqOHs:MlFc0rN3c7w:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wVPDL7AqOHs:MlFc0rN3c7w:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wVPDL7AqOHs:MlFc0rN3c7w:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wVPDL7AqOHs:MlFc0rN3c7w:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wVPDL7AqOHs:MlFc0rN3c7w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/wVPDL7AqOHs" height="1" width="1"/
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