Compléter past simpleVersion en ligne past simple par JAZMIN PEREZ ROSALES 1 fell was grew was made built traveled had believed saw built became went drove wrote became was stop took wrote continued put was fly failed wanted laughed wrote 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 . "