Question

Passage 1
adapted from Apollo 13
by NASA

At 5 1/2 minutes after liftoff, John Swigert, Fred Haise, and James Lovell felt a vibration. Then, the center engine of the S-II stage shut down two minutes early. This caused the remaining four engines to burn 34 seconds longer than planned, and the S-IVB third stage had to burn nine seconds longer to put Apollo 13 in orbit. . . .
Apollo 13 was to be the third lunar landing attempt, but the mission was aborted after the rupture of a service module oxygen tank. Still, it was classified as a "successful failure" because of the experience gained in rescuing the crew. The mission's spent upper stage successfully impacted the moon.
During the first two days, the crew ran into a couple of minor surprises, but generally, Apollo 13 was looking like the smoothest flight of the program. At 46 hours, 43 minutes, Joe Kerwin, the capsule communicator, or Capcom, on duty, said, "The spacecraft is in real good shape as far as we are concerned. We're bored to tears down here." It was the last time anyone would mention boredom for a long time.
At 55 hours, 46 minutes, as the crew finished a 49-minute TV broadcast showing how comfortably they lived and worked in weightlessness, Lovell said, "This is the crew of Apollo 13 wishing everybody there a nice evening, and we're just about ready to close out our inspection of Aquarius and get back for a pleasant evening in Odyssey. Good night." Nine minutes later, oxygen tank No. 2 blew up, causing the No. 1 tank to also fail. The command module's normal supply of electricity, light, and water was lost, and they were about 200,000 miles from Earth. . . .
Thirteen minutes after the explosion, Lovell happened to look out of the left-hand window and saw the final evidence pointing toward potential catastrophe. "We are venting something out into the. . . into space," he reported to Houston. Capcom Jack Lousma replied, "Roger, we copy you venting." Lovell said, "It's a gas of some sort." It was oxygen gas escaping at a high rate from the second, and last, oxygen tank.

Passage 2
The Mission That Went Wrong

I performed my routine checkup of the spaceship as I had been doing for the past two days and notified Houston that everything was in order. John Swigert and Fred Haise were busy having their meal, and gave me a nod as I floated past them. It had been less than 48 hours, and the three of us were already bored to our bones. We couldn't wait to finally land on the Moon and carry out our experiments.
After finishing my meal, I sent another broadcast to Houston informing that everything seemed to be working fine and that the three of us were signing off for the night. None of us could have imagined the catastrophe that was about to strike us just a few minutes later. While we prepared to go to bed, there was a sudden jerk in the spaceship and all lights went out. For a moment, I froze in my spot, not sure what to do. Then, I heard Swigert gasp, and I turned to see him looking outside one of the windows. I followed suit, and what I witnessed outside the window sent shivers down my spine. Something was leaking from the spaceship, something in a rather large quantity, and at a high speed.
There was no time to lose. In the dark, I somehow managed to reach the main deck, and at once contacted Houston. "We are venting something out into the. . . into space," I said in a shaky voice. In a couple of minutes, Houston responded saying that the leak was a gas of some sort. On further investigation, we realized that it was our supply of oxygen. Both the oxygen tanks had exploded and were leaking the gas into space. We were losing breathable air at an accelerated rate.
Swigert, Haise, and I looked at each other silently. We were 200,000 miles from Earth and were rapidly losing the most important thing keeping us alive inside the spaceship. What could we possibly do?
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How are the two passages different?
A.
One is an essay on the different space missions by NASA, and the other is an essay about the life of astronauts.
B.
One includes descriptions of only true events and the other includes descriptions of only imaginary events.
C.
One is an informative piece on a NASA space mission, and the other is a made-up personal account of an Apollo 13 astronaut.
D.
One is told from the viewpoint of Joe Kerwin from Houston, and the other is told from James Lovell's viewpoint on the Apollo 13.

Answer 1

C. One is an informative piece on a NASA space mission, and the other is a made-up personal account of an Apollo 13 astronaut.