Like the other rockets designed for this project, it dropped off only two stages en route.
The V-2, however, was technically far more advanced than the most successful of the rockets designed and tested by Goddard.
The goal of the competition is to launch a rocket, designed and built by the chapter members, to an altitude of 10,000 feet above sea-level.
The plot concerns three astronauts launched into space in a rocket designed by Quatermass.
This instrument, later called the Regener-Tonne was the first scientific payload for a rocket designed to reach high altitude.
Amroc is preparing the test launching Aug. 14 of the first nonmilitary rocket designed and built by private industry.
In response, the original booster was re-designed as a series of four smaller rockets designed to "wrap around" the missile fuselage.
At the time, North Korea claimed that the test launch was a multistage rocket designed to put a satellite into orbit.
The most innovative is Pegasus, a winged rocket designed to be launched from an airplane.
It fired miniature rockets designed to mushroom on impact.