Read the excerpt from the NASA article called "July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap for Mankind." Armstrong and Aldrin blast off and dock with Collins in Columbia. Collins later says that "for the first time," he "really felt that we were going to carry this thing off."

How does this quotation help the reader understand Michael Collins as he is described in The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon?

A It shows that he believed that the mission had not been accomplished because the wrong people had been involved.
B It shows that although he did not land on the moon, he was invested in the mission’s success.
C It shows that he believed that the mission would be accomplished because he was a major part of it.
D It shows that he believed the mission would have been more successful if he had been in a different role.

The triumph of night, toward the end if the story , starting on page 5 faxon encounters a man in furs whta function does fcxons interaction with this character serve?

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.

Which one event in the story almost caused them to turn back and give up? losing their donkeysthe descent into the volcanorunning into their first dead endlack of water