Fill in the Blanks Past Simple - B1Online version Drag the words. by Ma. Guadalupe Torres Pelcastre 1 made thought continued grew went drove was became went fell wanted built believed saw took didn died Robert Goddard born in 1882 . When he was a child , he interested in firecrackers and about the possibility of space travel . He later became a physics professor at a university . In his free time , he rockets and them to a field , but they ? t fly . When he back to his university after his failed attempts , the other professors laughed at him . In 1920 , Goddard wrote 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 wrote that Goddard had less knowledge about science than a high school student . Goddard to prove that The New York Times was wrong . In 1926 , he built a ten - foot rocket , put 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 traveled at 60 miles per hour ( mph ) to an altitude of 41 feet . Then it into the field . The flight lasted 2½ seconds , but Goddard was 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 in 1945 , his work did not stop . Scientists to build bigger and better rockets . In 1969 , when the American rocket Apollo 11 took the first men to the moon , The New York Times wrote : " The Times regrets the error . "
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