Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
at having the trouble located. The reaction to the close call might not was, I believe, one of the few weapons of history that wasn't used in the last war. That doesn't mean it won't be used in the next! "Got a bogey at three o'clock high. "Ah can patch the one where it came in, but it musta been explodin' come till hours later. "This kind of The slingshot luck we can do without. Can you patch the holes?" "Never mind, Guns. A patch that miles out. He set course for Earth at moon far down to the left. If the on the station on the "going away" side of its orbit, and settled back for "No IFF." "O.K., let me know as soon as you interphone crackled with the gregariousness born of recent peril, and gradually the ship fell silent as each have his course." Coulter squashed them were still alive. Eighty thousand miles to fall. That was a little beyond the capacity of an emergency rocket—about 2 G's for sixty seconds—even if they had them. What a he'd do if it happened to him. Would and get out of there, and the bomb out? Stick a proximity fuse on it, and disembodied, yearning back to earth. the angry disappointment in her eyes hearing again his awkward apologies. mad because I got drunk. The tension of approaching combat suddenly blended with the memory, Then after we got away from station, us playing around with bombs, till the experts get all the angles figured out, and build ships to handle them. rig the thing up for us and keep their mouths shut." "Well, forget about it. It's not a bad idea, but we haven't any bomb." of a panel sliding aside in the nose The Return-To-Station-Fuel and Relative-Velocity-To-Station tremendous acceleration. Interrogation was brief. The mission had turned up nothing new. Their kill made eight against seven for Doc Miller's crew, and they made it. They were lightheaded with the elation that followed a successful mission, swapping insults with the they were coasting, sneaked triumphantly back up the dial. above fifteen, she was trembling steadily. He didn't blame the old they'd probably have been spotted, and lost the precious element of surprise. He blessed the advantage of better the better than two hundred mile edge of American radar was more often than not the margin of victory. The American crews were a little sharper, a little better trained, but with their stripped down ships, and midget crewmen, with no personal safety equipment, the Reds could its third cycle, and he stood loose in the cradle as the power died. Sixty-two combat missions but the for the leave he'd passed up at his fiftieth mission. He'd considered taking it several times, but the thought government says there's no war. His to get excited about it. As he cleaned up his paper work and packed his musette, his hands were fumbling, the screep. Primary training. Basic and advanced training. The pride and the United States and Russia each had excitement of being chosen for space in 1979, the United States had won the race for a permanent station on the Moon. What a grind it had been, struggle to get into space and stay A year later the Moon station had "blown up." No warning. No survivors. there. The service crew eyed them crater. And six months later, with studied indifference, as they Just a brand-new medium-sized bringing in the supplies. while they were on leave. He the station. The implication was clear enough. There wasn't going to be any Moon station until one government ruled Earth. Or until the United States and Russia figured out a way to get along with each other. And so pilot going on leave. like trying to get along with an octopus. Of course there were rumors that the psych warfare boys had some gimmick cooked up, to turn the U. S. S. R. upside down in a revolution, the next time power changed weren't coming back. Where are you? Back on Earth, there was no war. The played international chess as ever. Neither side bothered the other's satellites, though naturally they were on permanent alert. There just wasn't going to be any Moon station for a might be on the Moon, but if one side couldn't have it, then the other side wasn't going to have it either. And meanwhile, the struggle was growing deadlier, month by month, each side groping for the stranglehold, give domination of space, or make all-out war a good risk. They hadn't found it yet, but it was getting bloodier it had been a supreme achievement just to get a ship out and back, but It was a ticklish job explaining about Kovacs, but when she understood every mission. Thirteen missions to go, after today. He wondered if he'd quit at seventy-five. Deep inside him, the old pride and excitement were still persona non grata —that was for sure. It was an unhappy thought. Well, maybe it was in a good cause. He shrugged and last two missions. but when he got started he'd made them look like slow motion, just the same. If he hadn't tried that harebrained sudden deceleration.... Coulter shook his head at the memory. And on the last mission they'd He completed the operation in silence, remarking to himself how lucky he was techniques were a bit irregular. Coulter chuckled at the ad lib way they operated, remembering the courses, the tests, the procedures practiced until they could do them backwards blindfolded. When they tangled Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors Astounding Science Fiction November 1955. have been corrected without note. the Moon. will be renamed. again. Still, the service had had to concede on "right side up," in designing the ships, so there was something to be said for it. They hadn't been able to simulate gravity without fouling up the ships so they had to call the pilot's head "up." There was something comforting about it. something nagging at his mind all the time, as though the ships had been sabotaged. A couple of pilots had gone nuts in the "spindizzy," to understand. Anyway, "right side up" tied in perfectly with the old "clock" system Garrity had dug out of those magazines use such a conglomeration. But it worked. And when you were in a hurry, it worked in a hurry, and that was good enough for Coulter. final corrections in course, set the air precarious maneuver called a combat pass—a maneuver inherited from the aerial dogfight—though it often turned mind wandered back over eight years and then, if they were lucky, the twenty-two frantic seconds they were out here for—throwing a few pounds of steel slugs to kill a duplicate of themselves. This is the worst. These three minutes are the worst. One hundred of leaving the squadron, even for a couple of weeks, had made him feel praying they weren't spotted—staring at the unmoving firmament and knowing he was a projectile hurtling guilty, as though he were quitting. the enemy. Knowing the odds were twenty to one against their scoring over. The ship filled with vibration several satellite stations operating, but The vastness of Muroc Base was as incredible as ever. Row on uncounted four miles he poured 12 G's for two seconds. They missed ramming by something around a hundred yards. The out every detail—the bright red star, even the tortured face of the pilot. Was there something lopsided in the was still heading back toward Earth, "What do you think I'm doing down Paul was struggling with hundred-pound arms, trying to focus the telescope that swiveled over the panel. There, but for the grace of God.... Paul shuddered in a confused mixture of relief and revulsion. became aware that the red light was on for loss of air. The cabin pressure gauge read zero, and his heart throbbed into his throat as he remembered that the loss, and any other damage, and

<question>:
What is implied that happened to the American Moon station?

<options>:
A The Reds destroyed it
B There was not enough funding to support it
C It fell into a crater
D It failed due to incompetence

<answer>:

A