Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text. Read the excerpt from “Go, John Glenn!”

He thought of astronaut Alan Shepard, strapped into his capsule, waiting for launch a year earlier. “Why don’t you fix your little problem … and light this candle?” Shepard had asked Mission Control. Glenn smiled at the memory.

Which response best describes the excerpt?

Shepard provides a firsthand account of the problems that had to be addressed before take-off.

A writer provides a secondhand account of the Friendship 7 mission.

It is a secondhand account of Shepard's words to Mission Control as he waited to launch.

It is a firsthand description of Glenn’s first trip into space.