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

<passage>:
Castaways of Eros Two families fought for the title to Eros, They packed their meager belongings while Dick finished his meal sun was high when they left the beach. They followed the shore line had discovered that there was game on Eros. Not quite Earthly, of his chest caved in like he was carrying a heavy weight on his shoulders. their equivalent—to carry the pollen from one flower to another." Eleanor stood quietly beside Mom, crooning softly to The Pooch so it wouldn't be scared by the thunderous blast of rocket motors. Grampaw dim heights. Vast cradles by the Sound were the nests to which a flock of interplanetary craft made homeward flight. Luggers and barges and cruisers. Bobby saw, with sudden excitement, the sharp, starred prow of the Solar Space Patrol man-o'-war. Here, in this field, the GSC's—the General Spacecraft Cradles. From one of which, as soon as Pop got clearance, their ship would take off. Their ship! Bobby felt an eager quickening of his pulse was aswarm with a host of butterflies. Their ship! The space officer said, "I think that takes care of everything, Dr. Moseley. I presume you understand the land-grant laws and obligations?" Cuchulainn do anything, everything at once. He took The Pooch into the circle of his left arm, helped his mother aboard, said, "Shut up, kid, you're enough to wake the dead. Watch that guard-panel, Elly. Papers all set, cradle-monkey now." Pop said, "Come along, Robert," and the others went inside. Bobby waited, though, to see the cradle-monkey, the man under whose orders spacecraft lifted gravs. The cradle-monkey was a dour man with gnarled legs and arms and temper. He looked at the Cuchulainn jaloupi-jockeys do to my cradles—burn 'em black! Oh, well—" He backed away from the ship. hammocks while Pop and Dick sat in observation seats. He waited, all ears and nerves, as the slow seconds sloughed away. Pop set the hypos running shattered by a thunderous detonation. There was a massive hand pressing him back into the soft, yielding leather of his chair the chair retreated on oiled channels, pneumatic compensators hissing faintly, absorbing the shock. Across the room a faulty hammock-hinge squeaked rustily. ball-like in the vastness of space. Earth, dwindling with each passing moment. Bobby moved to his side and watched Moira, too, and Eleanor interludes with space-pirates, narrow brushes with meteors, sabotage, treachery—hair-raising, heroic and horrifying. There was nothing like that to disturb the calm and peaceful journey of Cuchulainn And somehow three Earth days sped by, and they were nearing their destination. The tiny planetoid, Eros. Pop said, "You deserve a great deal of credit, son, for your fine work in rehabilitating the Cuchulainn . It has performed beautifully. You are a good spaceman." "Yes. We should come within landing radius in just a few hours. Cut son. A mere fifteen million miles. It's not often Eros is so near Earth." "Don't I know it? It's almost a hundred million at perihelion. But that's not the lucky part. You sure had to pull strings to get the Frankly, I don't get it! Eros must have terrific mass to have the attributes of a full-sized planet." "Eros!" he said. giddily, from seas that covered half the planetoid's surface, and mountains cut long, jagged shadows into sheltered plains beneath them. II It was not Dick's fault. It was just a tough break that no one had expected, planned for, guarded against. The planetoid was there beneath them they would land on it. It was as simple at that. Only it wasn't. Nor did they have any warning that the problem was more Eros was just a Anyway, it was after the final coordinates had been plotted, the last curved knife-edge of black slicing up over Eros' rim. For a long moment "And now we've got to land in the dark. On strange terrain. Arragh! I the forward search-beams, son. They will help." That was sheer optimism. As they neared the planet its gravitational attraction seized them tighter and tighter until they were completely The yellow beam of the search stabbed reluctant shadows, bringing rocky crags and rounded tors into swift, terrifying relief. Dick snapped, "Into your hammocks, everyone! Don't worry. This crate will stand a lot of bust-up. It's tough. A little bit of luck—" the control banks like frightened moths. There was no further need for the artificial gravs. Eros exerted, strangely, incredibly, an attractive power almost as potent as Earth's. Cuchulainn Through howling Bedlam they tumbled dizzily and for moments that were ages long. While Dick labored frantically at the controls, while Moira Cuchulainn He leaped to his controls. Once more the plaintive hum of the hypatomics droned through the cabin, gears ground and clashed as the motors caught, something forward exploded dully, distantly. The ship thing you read stories about. Escape from a flooding ship.... They had time—or took time—to gather together a few precious belongings. Eleanor packed a carrier with baby food for The Pooch, Mom a bundle of provisions hastily swept from the galley bins Pop remembered the medical kit and the tool-box, Grampaw was laden down with blankets and clothing, Dick burdened himself and Bobby with armloads of such things as he saw and forevisioned need for. "The air in the bulgers will carry you right to the surface. We'll Cuchulainn , they fled. The was waist—no, breast-deep—by the time all were gone save Bobby and Dick. Bobby, whose imagination had already assigned him the command of the foundering ship, wanted to uphold the ancient traditions by being feeling in his stomach. Almost immediately a hard something clanged! against his impervite helmet "Eros rotates on its axis," he explained, "in about ten hours, forty planet, I mean? After all, Eros is only one hundred and eighty odd miles in circumference—" "Eros has many peculiarities. Some of them we have discussed before. It approaches Earth nearer than any other celestial body, excepting Luna and an occasional meteor or comet. When first discovered by Witt, in 1898, the world of science marveled at finding a true planetoid with such an uncommon orbit. At perihelion it comes far within the orbit of Mars at aphelion it is far outside. "During its near approach in 1900-01, Eros was seen to vary in expedition visited it and determined the old presumption to be correct." "We're not the first men to visit Eros, then?" own. Long years ago I decided that Eros should be my settlement. As you have said, Richard, it necessitated the pulling of many strings. Eros Thus Eros greeted its new masters, and the Moseleys faced morning in Four Eros days—the equivalent of forty-two Earth hours or so—had passed since their crash landing. In that short time, much had been done to make their beach camp-site comfortable. All members of the open when we hit, the ship is full of water. The flour and sugar and things like that are ruined. I managed to get a few more things out, though. Some tools, guns, wire—stuff like that." "We'll find out. Will this place you speak of be close enough to let me Cuchulainn

<question>:
How was the Cuchulainn able to make the journey to Eros?

<options>:
A It was insured by the Solar Space Patrol.
B Dick fixed it, so it was fully operational.
C It was a brand-new ship.
D It had protection from the General Spacecraft Cradles.

<answer>:

B