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

<passage>:
himself from his seat and hurled with an incoherent cry. He against Jakdane's bunk—propelled He did not unbuckle his safety belt—he rose and it snapped like a string. JUPITER WEAPON destruction— immeasurably powerful, utterly invulnerable. There was only one question: Was he human? him like an avenging angel and, holding onto the bunk with one hand, rained savage blows on his Quest made no effort to retaliate. He cowered under the attack, to the Golden Satellite. It was a squalid saloon in the rougher section of Jupiter's View, the terrestrial dome-colony on Ganymede. Motwick, crewman had reached Asrange Trella had not wanted to come could have broken your skull! steely arm. Trella swung with her whole body, and slapped him so hard demanded Jakdane. “You could have, easily.” “I couldn't,” said Quest miserably, and turned his face though no more than four and a half feet tall, he was as heavily muscled as a lion. Because he's an android!” “What? Jakdane, you can't be serious!” It all figures. “Look, Trella, he said he was born on Jupiter. A human could stand the gravity of Jupiter, inside a dome or a ship, but what human could stand the rocket acceleration necessary to break free of Jupiter? Here's a man strong enough to break a spaceship safety belt just by getting up out of his chair against it, tough enough to take a beating with a heavy stick without being and then crying that he had injured “But he said Dr. Mansard was his father,” protested Trella. “Robots and androids frequently look on their makers as delicate operations could be performed their parents,” said Jakdane. artificial. Do you know how Mansard died?” “The oxygen equipment failed, Quest said.” think that?” he demanded. Dr. Mansard and his wife had her. failed, how do you think Quest lived in the poisonous atmosphere of Jupiter, if he's human?” Trella was silent. “For the protection of humans, smashed on Kregg's head, surgiscope, didn't he? But his ship was drawn into Jupiter and “I can't,” he muttered in a many things were explained: his great strength, his short, broad build, his immunity to injury, his refusal to defend himself against a human, his inability to the unconscious Motwick's side. return Trella's love for him. It was not inconceivable that he was Dr. Mansard's son, but “I'm sorry I couldn't fight those men for you, Miss, but I just couldn't,” he said miserably, had told her he could not love her. Her best course was to try to forget him. I'm desperate. You can carry him to the Stellar Hotel for me.” The gravity of Ganymede was hardly more than that of Earth's moon, but the way the man was inventor of the surgiscope? He followed Trella out the door of the Golden Satellite and fell like the looks of the men she saw. The transparent dome of Jupiter's View was faintly visible in the reflected night lights of the colonial city, but the lights were overwhelmed by the giant, vari-colored disc of Jupiter itself, riding high in the sky. “I'm Quest Mansard, Miss,” said her companion. “I'm just in from Jupiter.” Jupiter.” “You're lying,” she said flatly. “No one has ever landed on Jupiter. It would be impossible to blast off again.” “My parents landed on Jupiter, and I blasted off from it,” he said soberly. “I was born Dr. Eriklund Mansard?” Mansard,” she finished, “but apparently upward turn. “He developed the it, an android Dr. Mansard built on Jupiter.” lost.” “It was drawn into Jupiter, but he landed it successfully,” said Quest. “He and my mother lived on Jupiter until the oxygen equipment wore out at last. I was born and brought up there, “He came back to Earth with you, eh?” asked Blessing intently. as Dr. Mansard's heir.” and I was finally able to build up in heavy gravity. He trod the street with a light, controlled step, seeming to deliberately hold himself down. “If Dr. Mansard succeeded in landing on Jupiter, why didn't anyone ever hear from him again?” she demanded. “Because,” said Quest, “his radio was sabotaged, just as his ship's drive was.” “Jupiter strength,” she murmured, looking him over coolly. 53 to, she exclaimed: “You aren't afraid of Quest? Why, an android can't hurt a old Mansard didn't build in the inappropriate, but not unbelievable, that the strongest and most agile man on Ganymede Mansard … or his heir … or his mechanical servant. But, since this was to be the atmosphere of Blessing's Mansard papers to the New against telling him that the assignment on which she had come to the Jupiter system was to gather his own father's notebooks and take them back to The heavy oaken front door was kept locked now, and the guards blasted off. She found herself crash outside the room as The door from the house shattered The ship that they boarded on Earth, but it would still require such force that they skidded across the floor and lay in an unconscious heap against the fifty-four days to make the trip. that the ship was the he slammed down the accelerator and twisted the wheel hard. The car whipped into the ought to be,” she confessed. “I may need protection against myself till we get to Earth.” tangle of wreckage. “If it's to keep you out of another Cometfire swung around great Jupiter in an opening arc and plummeted ever more swiftly toward the tight circles of the aboard the ship's tiny personnel that wouldn't release me until the task was finished. Io. Blessing wanted the valuable rights to the surgiscope, and he sabotaged the ship's drive so it would fall into Jupiter. “But my father was able to control it in the heavy atmosphere of Jupiter, and landed it successfully. I was born there, Mansard's son knowing about it. and he conditioned me to come I know now that it was relation to Dr. Mansard part of the conditioning that I was unable to fight any other Mansard had invented the surgiscope. to Earth and track down Blessing. man until my task was finished: it might have gotten me in trouble Jupiter-strong muscles, Quest took her in his arms. “Now I can say I love you,” he said. “That was part of the conditioning too: I couldn't love “What in space makes you to handle hot material, and with the surgiscope very she cried, tears in her eyes. “Everything about you … your build, suited for Jupiter's gravity …your strength … the your strength … the atmosphere of Jupiter just after in Jupiter's atmosphere after the oxygen equipment failed. his invention of the surgiscope, and it had been developed by fact that you were able to live I know you think Dr. Mansard Dr. Mansard's disappearance, disappeared into the turbulent was your father, but androids He knew I'd have to grow laboratory of Dr. Mansard. up on Jupiter, and he operated He altered my inherited characteristics to adapt me to the climate of Jupiter … even to being able to breathe a chlorine atmosphere as well as an oxygen on the genes before I was born. Mansard lived, and would see struck him. Normal android with a laugh. “They don't grow up. And I remember my boyhood on Jupiter very well.” He took her in his arms again, He was a lean, saturnine individual who said little and kept to himself as much as possible. It was one of those accidents that can occur easily in space. The passengers and the two crewmen on that particular waking impossible, he had unbuckled

<question>:
How was Dr. Mansard's radio and ship drive destroyed?

<options>:
A Dr. Mansard destroyed it himself to eliminate any record of his survival
B It was never destroyed
C Blessing intentionally ruined it in the hopes that Mansard would die
D It could not withstand the harsh elements of Jupiter's atmosphere

<answer>:

C