The Apollo 11 lunar landing is often presented as the singular triumph of a small group of astronauts. Yet the mission depended on the labor of roughly 400,000 engineers, technicians, and support staff working in facilities across the United States. To celebrate only the astronauts is to obscure the collective enterprise that made the moonwalk possible.
Which choice best describes the function of the last sentence in the text?
- A
It dismisses the historical importance of Apollo 11.
- B
It introduces an unrelated argument about space exploration.
- C
It contradicts the second sentence's claim about the workforce.
- Dcheck_circle
It draws a normative conclusion from the contrast set up earlier in the text.
Explanation
The last sentence draws a "should" conclusion from the earlier numerical contrast. B captures the move from evidence to evaluative claim.