Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a completo 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?
A writer provides a secondhand account of the Friendship 7 mission.
It is a firsthand description of Glenn's first trip into space,
It is a secondhand account of Shepard's words to Mission Control as he waited to launch
Shepard provides a firsthand account of the problems that had to be addressed before take-off.