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  In 1926 Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-propelled rocket, achieving an altitude of 41 feet....
• Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder. -- Murphy's Military Laws, #20
• If they try to rush me, I always say, "I've only got one other speed--and it's slower.
  -- Glenn Ford...
• Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 830...
• He has, I know not what, of greatness in his looks, and of high fate, that almost awes me.
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• All that I am my mother made me. -- John Quincy Adam
• A single flow'r he sent me, since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose
  Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet-- One perfect rose....
• A Severe Strain on the Credulity As a method of sending a missile to the highe
  and even to the highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket is a practicable and therefore promising device....