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

<passage>:
HER ONLY PASSION WAS BEAUTY—BEAUTY WHICH WOULD LAST FOREVER. in them, but only she knew it. And if some of the muscles beneath her polished skin did not respond with quite the resilience of the youth they once had, only knew that, too. But they would again , she told herself fiercely. She caught herself. She had let down her guard for an instant, and a feel that sureness of power in her grasp—the certain knowledge that she, first of all people, would turn Time on itself and destroy it. She them here for someone else to use in masking the downhill years. There, on the floor beside her, was the answer she had sought so long. A record in theoretical physics, the cautious, scientific wording of his postulates, meant nothing to her. The one thing that had meaning for her her too. Once she had had to do it deliberately. But now, through the years, it had deepened. "Not yet, Robert," she whispered. She let him feel the slight but firm resistance so nicely calculated to breach his own watched the deepening Then, "Come in, Robert," she said, moving back a step. "I've been She noted, approvingly, that Robert was in his spaceman's uniform, ready for the morrow's flight, as he went past her to the couch. She pushed the young spaceman on the silken couch. pout. "If you could just take me with you, Robert...." Robert's face clouded. "If I only could!" he said wistfully. "If there were only room. But this is an experimental flight—no more than two can "Wait? Wait for what?" Robert glanced at his watch. "Time is running know all this already. We've had space flight for years, but only rocket-powered, restricting us to our own system. Now we have a new kind of drive. Theoretically we can travel faster than light—how many times faster we don't know yet. I'll start finding out tomorrow, with the first test flight of the ship in which the new drive is installed. If it works, the universe is ours—we can go anywhere." "Will it work?" Ninon could not keep the avid greediness out of her voice. Robert said, hesitantly, "We think it will. I'll know better by this time tomorrow." "What of you—of me—. What does this mean to us—to people?" Again the young spaceman hesitated. "We ... we don't know, yet. We think that time won't have the same meaning to everyone...." "Well ... yes. Something like that." "And I'll be—old—or dead, when you get back? If you get back?" Robert leaned forward and buried his face in the silvery-blonde hair This time Ninon permitted herself a wrinkling smile. If she was right, and she knew she was, it could make no difference now. There would be no wrinkles—there would be only the soft flexible skin, naturally soft and flexible, of real youth. "It's time to go, Robert," she said. Robert fought back from the stubborn grasp of sleep. "So soon?" he "Robert!" she said, and the youth paused at the sharpness of her voice. "How old do you think I am?" He gazed at her in silent curiosity for a moment, then said, "Come to think of it, you've never told me. About twenty-two or -three, I'd say." "Tomorrow is my birthday. I'll be fifty-two." knew your father, before you were born." This time she could see that he believed it. The horror he felt was easy to read on his face while he struggled to speak. "Then ... God help "Robert!" she said in peremptory tones. three buttons earlier. Robert's arms were around her, his face buried in you have nothing to gain." Venomous with triumph, Ninon's voice was harsh even to her ears. "On the contrary, my proud and impetuous young spaceman, I have much to gain, to be trained to command this experimental flight I made it my business to find out everything possible about you. One other man is going. He Space Research knew that you had not...." make any difference, and he'd never come here to see...." To Robert, she said, "I think Commander Pritchard would be here in five Right now minutes counted. She snatched up a cloak, pushed Robert out where his car waited. Robert did not offer to help her into the car, but got in first and would still be running but it would never show later time?" The young man said gruffly, "Roughly so, according to theory." wouldn't it run backwards?" Robert said, "So that's what's in your mind." He busied himself with parking the car at the spaceport, then went on: "You want to go back in the past thirty years, and be a girl again. While I grow younger, too, into a boy, then a child, a baby, at last nothing...." "I'll try to be sorry for you, Robert." said flatly, turning to lead the way to the gleaming space ship which The young man's words seemed to imply a secret knowledge that Ninon did not possess. A sudden chill of apprehension rippled through her, and The space ship stood on fiery tiptoes and leaped from Earth, high into the sling against the artificial gravity of the ship. Robert was already The young spaceman swivelled about in his seat. He looked haggard and could feel the sagging in her own face the sunkenness of her eyes. She plotted in advance all operations are plotted. There is nothing we can Robert's voice sounded far off as he replied, "We are approaching the "Faster!" she cried. "We must go much faster! I must be young again. Youthful, and gay, and alive and happy.... Tell me, Robert, do you feel lying in the sling so long. She made her voice light and gay. "Are we not going very, very fast, now, Robert?" going, Robert?" He said, "I don't know ... depends on where you are." "It must be hours ... days ... weeks. I should be hungry. Yes, I think I am hungry. I'll need food, lots of food. Young people have good appetites, don't they, Robert?" It's the excitement , she told herself. After all, no other woman, ever, had gone back through the years to be young again.... halfway point and was turning to speed back through space to Earth, quite boyish, almost childish, in appearance." He nodded slightly. "You may be right," he said. Robert was gone—there would be many young men, men her own age, when found its way back into the galaxy from which it had started. Found its behind. Next would be Mars.... But what was this? Not Mars! Not any planet she knew, or had seen before. Yet there, ahead, was Mars! A new planet, where the asteroids mistake in the calculations of the scientists and engineers who had plotted the course of the ship? Was something wrong? wherever she landed there would be excitement and rushing about as she brave passengers who had voyaged through space from no one knew where. A murmur went through the crowd, and some moved farther back for safety, watching with alert curiosity. obviously not of our Aerth." And a savant said, "Yes, not of this Aerth. But perhaps it is from a space on such a ship as that." He squeezed her hand and said, "We'll find out, Nina. Space travel will come, in our time, they've always said—and there is the proof of it." The girl rested her head against the young man's shoulder. "You'll be one of the first, won't you, Robin? And you'll take me with you?" one could live in reverse. So when we get old we'll go out in space, ship to greet whoever was aboard. They came hurrying down, and Robin and Nina crowded forward to hear what they had to report. They were puffing from the rush of their excitement. "There is no one alive on the ship," they cried. "Only an old, withered, white-haired lady, lying dead ... and alone. She must have fared long and far to have

<question>:
Why did Robert want to go to space?

<options>:
A He wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and fly to space like him
B He needed to escape his life on Earth
C He was after eternal youth himself
D We don’t know for sure from the story

<answer>:

D