 Chen, along with several others at the lab, get caught up in the Red Scare of the 1950s. Some scientists end up in jail. Some more get blacklisted. Chen ends up basically on house arrest and then either leaves voluntarily or gets deported to China, where he becomes the father of Chinese rocketry. Frank Molina stayed on at JPL through the testing of the WAC Corporal, the first successful sounding rocket in 1945. And after that, he takes a job with UNESCO and moves to France.