### Clue: A high achiever, I launch farreaching studies (6,9)
### Answer: ROCKET SCIENTIST 
 ### Explanation: Definition: A high achiever,I launch farreaching studies
  Double defn:  1st:  Metaphor for someone successful, often used in a backhanded way such as "you don't have to be a rocket scientist to …".  Equally ranked with a "brain surgeon"?  2nd:  Literally the person responsible for *launch*ing explorers to *study* outer,*farreaching* space,.