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

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condition, how often is it wrecked by a series of silly errors happening one after another in defiance of The "I'll sign off with two thoughts, one depressing and one cheering. A single Chingsi wrecked our ship and our launch. What could a whole the way up the half-mile precipice it fingered and wrenched away at groaning ice-slabs. It screamed over the top, whirled snow wind howled out of the northwest, blind planetful of them do? in a dervish dance around the hollow proof is that I've survived to tell the glazed by ice, chasms and ridges and snow-filled air howling over it, sliding thrown down in the dead wilderness. broken or a clockwork toy running down. When the movements stopped, there was a click and a strange with ice crystals. All Whale . Sure I'm a good astronomer but so jump in the first starship ever. At my age it was luck. "You'll want to know if the ship worked. Well, she did. Went like a bomb. We got lined up between Earth and Mars, you'll remember, and James pushed the button marked 'Jump'. Took his finger off the button and there we were: Alpha Centauri Whale till right at the end and even then I doubt if it was the ship itself that fouled things up. gone up in smoke. just back from a proving flight cum astronomical survey in the starship Whale . Whoever you are who finds this tape, you're made. Take it to "Where had I got to? I'd told you at fifteen p.s.i. The odds against finding Chang on a six-sun survey on the first star jump ever must be up in the googols. We certainly were lucky. over. had aboard the Whale . "Three, they've a great sense of lose whichever Chingsi we played. we played them and that's fatal in pets, but you didn't feel like patting called him Charley, and he was the came back with us. Why I disliked time he had to be top. Great sense of humor, of course. I nearly broke my neck on that butter-slide he fixed up in the metal alleyway to the Whale's engine room. Charley laughed fit to bust, everyone laughed, I Charley ... "My last sight of the a cabin full of dead and dying men, the sweetish stink of burned flesh and the choking reek of scorching insulation, the boat jolting and shuddering and beginning to break up, and in the middle of the flames, still unhurt, was Charley. He was laughing ... "My God, it's dark out here. Wonder how high I am. Must be all of more than that when I land. What's final velocity for a fifty-mile fall? Same as a fifty thousand mile fall, I "That's better. Why didn't I close made me dizzy. I'll make a nice shooting star when I hit air. Come to think of it, I must be deep in air I don't seem to be falling as fast as I expected though. Almost seem to be and tell the world hello. Hello, earth ... hello, again ... and good-by ... "Sorry about that. I passed out. I or eraser. What must have happened is that the suit ran out of oxygen, and I lost consciousness due to anoxia. I dreamed I switched on the radio, but I actually switched on the emergency tank, thank the Lord, instead of bottled? up. "I was telling about the return journey, wasn't I? The long jump back home, which should have dumped us between the orbits of Earth and Mars. Instead of which, when James took his finger off the button, the mass-detector showed nothing except the noise-level of the universe. "We were out in that no place for our exact position relative to the solar system. The crew had to find out exactly what went wrong. The physicists had to make mystic passes found what went wrong in less than half an hour. "It still seems incredible. To program the ship for a star-jump, you merely told it where you were and where you wanted to go. In practical in the galaxy. Then you cut a tape on the computer and hit the button. Nothing was wrong with the computer. Nothing was wrong with the engines. We'd hit the right button and we'd gone to the place we'd aimed for. All we'd done was aim for the wrong place. It hurts me to tell you this and I'm just attached personnel with no space-flight tradition. In practical terms, one highly trained crew member had punched a wrong pattern of holes on the tape. Another equally skilled had failed to notice why we were out there so long. They were cross-checked about five times. I got sick so I climbed into a spacesuit and went outside and took some wishing human dignity permitted him to tear Charley limb from limb. Then James pressed the button. "Everything twanged like a bowstring. I felt myself turned inside out, passed through a small sieve, and poured back into shape. The entire bow wall-screen was full of Earth. Something was wrong all right, and this time it was much, much worse. We'd come out of the jump about two hundred miles above the Pacific, pointed straight down, traveling at a relative speed of about two thousand miles an hour. was the Whale , the most powerful ship ever built, which could cover of one second, and it was helpless. For, as of course you know, the star-drive couldn't be used again for at least two hours. "The Whale also had ion rockets of course, the standard deuterium-fusion our situation it was no good because it has rather a low thrust. It would have taken more time than we had to deflect us enough to avoid a smash. We had five minutes to abandon ship. "James got us all into the Minnow at a dead run. There was no time to take anything at all except the clothes we stood in. The thanked God for that when Cazamian canceled our downwards velocity with them in a few seconds. We curved away up over China and from about fifty miles high we saw the Whale hit the Pacific. Six hundred tons of mass at well over two thousand miles an hour make an almighty down, but I doubt they'll salvage "I wonder why James went down with the ship, as the saying is? Not that it made any difference. It must have broken his heart to know that his lovely ship was getting the chopper. Or did he suspect another human error? crisp. Only thing that saved me was the spacesuit I was still wearing. I snapped the face plate down because the cabin was filling with fumes. I saw Charley coming out of the toilet—that's how he'd escaped—and I saw him beginning to laugh. Then the port side collapsed and I fell out. "I saw the launch spinning away, glowing red against a purplish black sky. I tumbled head over heels towards the huge curved shield of earth fifty miles below. I shut my eyes and that's about all I remember. I don't see how any of us could have survived. I think we're all dead. "I'll have to get up and crack this suit and let some air in. But I can't. I fell fifty miles without a parachute. I'm dead so I can't stand up." There was silence for a while except my thirst but I could eat a horse. I jumps. Terminal velocity for a human body falling through air is about one hundred twenty m.p.h. foot fall, true, but I've been lucky. The suit is bulky but light and probably slowed my fall. I hit a sixty mile an hour updraft this side of the Whale expedition did fine till it found Chang. Then it hit bad luck that went on and on till it looks fishy. We lost the ship, we lost the launch, all but one of us lost our lives. We couldn't even win a game of ping-pong. eye legend and the Jonah, bad luck

<question>:
What happened to the Whale?

<options>:
A Charlie sabotaged the deuterium fusion drive. The drive shut down, and the Whale crashed into the Pacific.
B The ion rockets on the Whale exploded. It then crashed into the Pacific.
C The Cazamian laser exploded, causing the Whale to crash down into the Pacific.
D The Whale came out of its star-jump in the wrong position. It then crashed into the Pacific.

<answer>:

D