Read the passage from The Race to Space
Countdown to Liftoff
Back in Houston, NASA teams scrambled to think of
ways to get these men home alive. Flight Directors
Gene Kranz, Gerald Griffin, and Glynn Lunney
mobilized teams to work around the clock to figure out
new scenarios for getting 13 back to Earth on limited
power. Flight plans for NASA typically took months to
put together and required a ton of super complicated
mathematics, but Mission Control didn't have that kind
of time. The LM was designed to support two
astronauts for two days; now it was going to have to
support three men for four days!
The authors most likely uses the tone in the passage
to reinforce the point that
O getting the astronauts back to Earth would be very
difficult.
O the astronauts and NASA teams were happy to work
together
Ocreating a flight plan involved complicated
mathematics.
O many people were thinking of ways to get the
astronauts back to Earth.