Tell me about an aerospace tycoon who is not from Beihang University but has a deep relationship with Beihang University.
"Returning to China in five years, 10 two bombs". He is a pioneer. He forged his wisdom into a ladder and left it to later climbers. "Two bombs and one satellite meritorious service" and "national outstanding contribution scientist", he is a treasure house of knowledge, a banner of science and a model of China intellectuals; Country is the most important, family is the most important, science is the most important, and fame and fortune are the least. He regards people's satisfaction as the highest reward and is known as "people's scientist". He is an old friend who has long been concerned about the development of Beihang University, and also a teacher who has given great support and guidance to Beihang University. He is Qian Xuesen, the father of China's space flight, the king of rockets and the founder of China's manned space flight project.
As an outstanding scientist at home and abroad, the founder of China's space industry, and one of the winners of China's two bombs and one satellite meritorious medal, Qian Xuesen received his doctorate in the United States on 1938. He began to fight for returning to China in 1950 and was persecuted by the American government. 1955 It took five years to return to the motherland. Since 1958, Qian Xuesen has been the technical director of rocket, missile and spacecraft development for a long time, and put forward an extremely important implementation plan for the development of rocket and missile technology in China.
Qian Xuesen and Academician Lu Shijia, the founder of aerodynamics major of Beihang University, have known each other since childhood, and they are both aerodynamics experts. Qian Xuesen and Lu Shijia often discussed academic issues, and Lu Shijia later established aerodynamics major in Beihang University without Qian Xuesen's strong support. Qian Xuesen cares about aviation education and the overall development of Beihang University, and has given many reports to Beihang University teachers to guide the scientific development direction. At the first and second scientific seminars of Beihang University, Qian Xuesen gave a report on "the prospect of aviation technology" and "the specialty and breadth, distance and difficulty in scientific research" respectively. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Qian Xuesen personally wrote an inscription to congratulate him.
Qian Xuesen cares about the discipline construction of Beihang University. 1958, in order to meet the urgent need of "two bombs and one satellite" inertial guidance, at the suggestion of Qian Xuesen, the founder of inertial technology in China, Chang Chang, established the research room of "Pneumatic Gyroscope and Inertial Navigation", and developed the specialty of Pneumatic Gyroscope and Inertial Navigation on this basis. Later, the discipline of optical engineering in the School of Instrumental Science and Optoelectronic Engineering of Beihang University has always taken Qian Xuesen's famous saying "Don't lose heart, as long as you persevere, you will surely get results" as the motto of this discipline. Qian Xuesen also paid attention to the scientific research achievements of Beihang University. Premier Zhou Enlai, Qian Xuesen and six marshals visited 1958 the 11th Gift Exhibition of Beihang Science and Technology Achievements held by the Ministry of National Defense, and praised the important exploration and contribution made by Beihang model development to the development of aviation industry in China.
The statue of Qian Lao still stands in front of the library of Xueyuan Road Campus of Beihang University. This is the first full-length portrait of Qian Xuesen built by Beihang University with the consent of Qian Lao and his wife.