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As an instrument for "reaching extreme altitudes", Goddard's rockets were not very successful; they did not achieve an altitude greater than 2.7 km (in 1937), at a time when airplanes could reach up to 15 km and balloons 22 km.

He quickly impressed the head of the physics department, A.Wilmer Duff, with his thirst for knowledge.

The second, , described a rocket fueled with gasoline and liquid nitrous oxide.

Weight was reduced by using thin-walled fuel tanks wound with high tensile strength wire.From 1940-1941, work was done on the P series of rockets, which used propellant turbopumps (also powered by gasoline and liquid oxygen).

Later, he continued his formal schooling as an 18-year-old sophomore at South High School in Worcester.

It provided few design details, but gave the Soviets the direction and progress of Goddard's work.

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