Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Curse of Tsien

Norco 80

LAist Studios

True Crime

3.7 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

While Frank Malina escaped the worst of the FBI's treatment, Suicide Squad member Tsien Hsue-Shen was not so lucky. This episode chronicles the shocking story of how the United States wound up losing one of its most brilliant minds in rocketry to China.

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0:42.8	L.A. LAS Studios Last spring, a website called China Military Online,
0:51.1	a news portal affiliated with China's Central Military Commission or CMC, freaked out over
0:57.7	Elon Musk. The article in question was about a SpaceX launch and how it was lugging
1:03.2	53 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit. Quote, the program's unchecked expansion and the company's ambition to use it for military
1:14.8	purposes, the article's author wrote, quote, should put the international community on high
1:21.7	alert.
1:22.9	So that's one thing.
1:24.6	But there's another article.
1:25.8	This one's in the Financial Times about how
1:29.2	U.S. intelligence also freaked out. Granted, nothing to do with Elon or SpaceX. Instead,
1:36.6	it was after China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that circled the globe.
1:46.9	An unnamed source is quoted saying, quote,
1:50.3	we have no idea how they did this.
1:55.3	We have seen a weaponization of space from China and Russia.
1:58.0	That's Lieutenant General Stephen Whiting.
2:00.6	He was speaking during a joint hearing from the House Foreign Affairs
2:02.1	Subcommittee on International Development and the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic
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