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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on Mars was humane about sending me? oxygen for the return trip (Jones assures me there'll be a return trip to Mars. He was always getting trip), and the air's only a little bit me . "It'll be the biggest break a writer ever got," he told me, two days before blastoff. "Oh, sure there'll be scientific reports on the trip, but the public doesn't want Either way, it's better than what Jones calls them. with the help of the aliens. Or maybe June 1960. on things." "But, Louie," I said weakly, "I'll probably be locked up for the whole trip. If there are fights or accidents, they won't tell me about They'll identify with you." there's hope, and now he won't talk to me. I congratulated Kroger on a short and unscientific word and went to sleep. So I went on the first trip to what they intend to do with us. Feed us, I hope. So far, they've just left us here, and we're out of rations. They picked the launching date from the March, 1959, New October 1, 1960 Times , which stated that this was the most likely time for launching. Trip time is supposed to take 260 days (that's one way), so we're aimed toward where Mars will be (had better be, or else). There are five of us on board. A on all four sides by running water, enough. Dwight Kroger, the biochemist, is rather old to take the "rigors of the journey," as he puts it, but the blasted off, though, and he's still with us. He looks a damn sight better than I feel. He's kind of balding, and very iron-gray-haired and skinny, but his skin is tan as an Indian's, and right now he's telling in the heart of the planet, says better than starving." It is not. June 24, 1961, probably . So is everybody else. Right now I could eat a dinner raw, in a centrifuge, and keep it itself out into airless space. (they call it the bulkhead, for some reason or other) island before he made the far side. had to lift him out of the swirling he's probably got them on his face, too. So far, all he's said is, "Scram, I'm busy." scales. They had melted down in during blastoff. The inertial gravities outside of their watched them more closely and seen that they have long rubbery now and then suck up water from today. Not me. October 2, 1960 Feeling much washes away (from the inside, of course) the sugar they need for energy. I knew the formula for carbohydrate. tall and does Like plants, on Earth, he said. Except, instead of using special shape of the on the way to the galley (the October 3, 1960 Well, I've spoke to him, and it sounded like Flants. That can't be right. Also, I am one of the first five again." "I dunno," said Jones. "Remember those of starvation." The hell it is. June 24, 1961, for sure mines. That's what they use those out of a carton. Right now we're using It looks like a long trip. October 4, 1960 I won I went to the galley for coffee got back to the ship quickly. First on Mars?" We're going back . Pat says that a week is all we were allowed to stay and that it's urgent to return and tell what we've learned about Mars (we know there are When I got back to my compartment, them now, by the time we get back we'll be yesterday's news. This way shortly after landing." uses his first name as a gag. Some fun. And only 255 days to go. April 1, 1961 I've skipped over the last 177 days or so, because there's nothing This time it wasn't so bad. I much new. I brought some books Mars, so escape velocity didn't about Vanity Fair , (relatively) trip on our shock-absorbing time I'll be the one to quit. War and Peace , Gone with Babbitt . They didn't take as long as I thought they would, except for Vanity Fair Mars. And I kept a diary. This is it when he'd pulled a particularly good gag. Some fun. And only 78 days to go. June 1, 1961 Only 17 days to go. I saw Mars on the screen today. It seems to be Pat has declared a state of emergency. Earth for instructions. We can't. Here we are, somewhere in a void headed for Earth, with enough air and water left for maybe three days—if the Martians don't take any more. Kroger is thrilled that he is June 18, 1961 the whole screen Mars has again. We're going to land, so I have to go to my bunk. It's all did me at takeoff. Earth seems awfully Kroger put us all into a state of suspended animation till landing time, eight months away. Kroger said, "How?" June 27, 1961 the air is getting worse. Pat suggested got to set up camp, then get instructions from Earth. So we just have to wait. The air is very cold, but the Sun is hot as hell when it hits you. round and smooth. No lichen so far. Kroger says June 28, 1961 The AFAR system is no more and the water gauges are still dropping. June 20, 1961 Got lost today. Kroger suggests baking bread, then slicing it, then toasting it till the rocket behind me. Walked for maybe an hour then the oxygen gauge got past the halfway mark, got back they were gone. However, After maybe ten steps, the rocket couldn't have guessed at the carbohydrates present in the bread after a lifelong diet of anthracite. Pat I certainly hope so. So does Kroger. Brief reprieve for us. The and the gauge has gone up a notch. That means that we have a quart of water in the tanks for drinking. However, the air's a bit better, the rocket. Worse and worse . Lloyd At least I think they were footprints. Twice as long as mine, and three times as wide, but kind of featureless because the sand's loose and dry. They doubled back on themselves, spaced considerably Well, it's time for takeoff. to make a landing. carry us to Earth and we can die always meant to read and never them, nor the jeep, on my trip back. So we followed the wheel tracks for had the time. So now I know all made of carbohydrates, too. I'd rather not have known. back yet, either. June 21, 1961 We're not idea. I guess before another windstorm blows you know the rest of , my diary aboard, and towed the the "captured Martian" leaked out, And we're locking up the ship. It's later until the dismantling of the and we all became nine-day wonders rocket. the jeep to follow the aliens' on a Martian. The trail ended at the brink of and hydrostatic pressure and crystalline life, but in no time at all in a few weeks. It looks like the five of us have abetted an invasion from Mars. Needless to say, we're no longer setting, so we're waiting till tomorrow to go down. inside of the crevice, but the Sun's to sign on for the flight to Venus scheduled within the next few days—because of our experience. Kroger says there's only enough fuel for a one-way trip. I don't care. mingled with the alien ones, sharp and clear. The aliens seem to have six or seven toes. It varies from print to print. And they're barefoot, too, or else they have the damnedest-looking

<question>:
What portion of the journey was spent in cryosleep?

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A 4 months
B They did not use cryosleep.
C 6 months
D 8 months

<answer>:

B