Communist 'masterminds' China' s lunar probe

The chief designer and architect of China's first and quite successful lunar exploration program (CLEP) Chang'e-1 is actually a 78-year old research professor, Sun Jiadong (孫家棟) who is also a communist. As a matter of historical fact, human being's scientific exploration of the outer space began on 4 October, 1957 when the first artificial satellite Sputnik-1 was successully launched by the communist Soviet Union where Professor Sun Jiadong studied at the Jukovski Institute of Air Force Engineering and graduated with a Gold Medal in 1958.

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