adapted from "The Making of the Apollo 11 Mission Patch"
NASA History
Following tradition, the Apollo 11 crew was given the task of designing its mission patch. Apollo 11 was, and still is, one of the most publicly recognized
NASA missions ever. The eyes of the world were on Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. The Apollo 11 patch not only needed to be a symbol
for the mission, it had to convey the intentions of America and the hopes of NASA. With this daunting task in front of them, the astronauts set forth to
create a design. After some discussion, the crew decided to keep their names off the patch. Michael Collins explains: "We wanted to keep our three
names off it because we wanted the design to be representative of everyone who had worked toward a lunar landing, and there were thousands who
could take a proprietary interest in it, yet who would never see their names woven into the fabric of a patch. Further, we wanted the design to be symbolic
rather than explicit."
Like the decision to keep the crew names off the patch, the choice to use the Arabic numerals "11" instead of "XI" or even "eleven" was purposeful. Neil
Armstrong disliked spelling out "eleven," because it wouldn't be easily understandable to foreigners, so the crew decided on "11."
Fellow astronaut Jim Lovell suggested they use an eagle, the national bird of the United States, as the focus of the patch. Running with that proposal,
Michael Collins found a picture of an eagle in a book about birds and traced it. He then sketched in a field of craters beneath the eagle's claws and the
earth behind its wings.
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Select the correct answer.
The author suggests that all the decisions the crew made about the Apollo 11 patch were deliberate. How does the author's use of chronological
order help to convey this idea?
A.
It allows the author to discuss the historical significance of this crew's mission
B.
It allows the author to show the length of time that went into the project.
C.
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It allows the author to compare this crew's design to other crew's designs
It allows the author to show how the design progressed from start to finish.