Farewell, father of our space program
By Wang Zhuoqiong | China Daily | Updated: 2009-11-07 08:29
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People pay their last respects to Qian Xuesen, the father of China's space program, at a funeral in Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing on Friday. Feng Yongbin |
There were wreaths and elegiac couplets. There were leaders, and students and former colleagues. And there were thousands of tearful eyes and muffled sobs.
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