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Korolev's family moved to Moscow in 1925 where Korolev attended a Technical School (100) and studied with top aircraft designers (2). In 1930, Korolev designed his second glider (4). A year later in 1931 Korolev met two rocket designers: Mikhail Tikhon and Friedrich Tsannder (3). Tsander was good at developing engines. Korolev noticed his engine’s capabilities and decided to attach it to one of his own gliders. This collaboration caught the interest of the three rocket engineers who spent a great deal of time working together. This collaboration led to the birth of the GIRD-09 in 1933 (25)(13), a rocket-powered glider capable of 400 yards of flight. Right before the glider was finished, Tsander died of typhus (25). The GIRD-09 was capable enough to gain Soviet military attention which led to Korolev getting hired as senior engineer of the reaction propulsion institute (5)(25). Korolev continued working on aircraft and, in 1936, created the RP-318, Russia's first rocket-powered aircraft (14) and in 1947 the RP-318-1 became the first piloted rocket-powered aircraft in russia. The RP-318 had broken two barriers!