Before Qian Xuesen became the King of Chinese Aerospace - he was a Caltech professor who helped co-found JPL, NASA’s top R&D lab in Pasadena, California. How the USA lost a generational talent is a story of McCarthy-era racism, unproven accusations, and the original “Suicide Squad” bad boys of rocketry. #chineseamerican #tradewar #nasa #jpl #uschina #asianamerican #aapi #aanhpi #ushistory #AmericanHistory #engineering #rocketry #aerospace #aerospaceengineering #aerospaceindustry #ScienceHistory