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Robert
Goddard
born
in
1882
.
When
he
a
child
,
he
interested
in
firecrackers
and
thought
about
the
possibility
of
space
travel
.
He
later
a
physics
professor
at
a
university
.
In
his
free
time
,
he
rockets
and
took
them
to
a
field
,
but
they
didn't
.
When
he
went
back
to
his
university
after
his
attempts
,
the
other
professors
at
him
.
In
1920
,
Goddard
an
article
about
rocket
travel
.
He
that
one
day
it
would
be
possible
to
go
to
the
moon
.
When
The
New
York
Times
his
article
,
a
reporter
that
Goddard
less
knowledge
about
science
than
a
high
school
student
.
Goddard
to
prove
that
The
New
York
Times
wrong
.
In
1926
,
he
a
ten
-
foot
rocket
,
it
into
an
open
car
,
and
to
his
aunt's
nearby
farm
.
He
put
the
rocket
in
a
field
and
lit
the
fuse
.
Suddenly
the
rocket
into
the
sky
.
It
at
60
miles
per
hour
(
mph
)
to
an
altitude
of
41
feet
.
Then
it
into
the
field
.
The
flight
lasted
2½
seconds
,
but
Goddard
happy
about
his
achievement
.
Over
the
years
,
his
rockets
to
18
feet
and
flew
to
9
,
000
feet
in
the
air
.
No
one
fun
of
him
after
he
was
successful
.
When
Goddard
died
in
1945
,
his
work
did
not
.
Scientists
to
build
bigger
and
better
rockets
.
In
1969
,
when
the
American
rocket
Apollo
11
the
first
men
to
the
moon
,
The
New
York
Times
:
"
The
Times
regrets
the
error
.
"