Matrix space $ M = \{ A \in R^{3x3};C(A) \subseteq span \{(1,2,3)^{T}\}\} $

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Consider a matrix space M as follows:

$$ M = \{ A \in R^{3x3};C(A) \subseteq span \{(1,2,3)^{T}\}\} $$

*( $C(A)$ meaning column space of matrix )

a) Find a base of M

b) Find a matrix $ A \in M $ such that $(1,1,-1)^T \notin Ker(A^T) $

Now with some help I was able to find a few matrices that are in M: $$ \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 2 & 0 & 0 \\ 3 & 0 & 0 \\ \end{bmatrix} $$ as well as other matrices that have $(1,2,3)^T$ in other columns, but I have no idea how to continue further. The best I could think of is, that $$ base(M) = \{(1,2,3)^T\} $$ but I'm not sure if the base shouldn't be matrices as well. However, those are just speculations. All advice is strongly appreciated.

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A) To find the base of M, we have to find all linearly independent matrices A such that $$ span(C(A)) = \{(1,2,3)^T\} $$ For that, we have to include only vectors $$ \vec{v} = (\alpha,2\alpha,3\alpha);\alpha\in \Bbb{R}$$ Because the dimension of vector space is $3$, base matrices should be also $3$. For example: $$ base(M) = ( \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 2 & 0 & 0 \\ 3 & 0 & 0 \\ \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 1& 0 \\ 0 & 2& 0 \\ 0 & 3& 0 \\ \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 2 \\ 0 & 0 & 3 \\ \end{bmatrix}$$

B) To find a matrix A $$ A\in M \text{ such that } (1,1,-1)^T \notin Ker(A^T) $$ We first take the general form of $A^T$ as a linear combination of base matrices $$ A^T = \begin{bmatrix} \alpha & 2\alpha & 3\alpha \\ \beta & 2\beta & 3\beta \\ \gamma & 2\gamma & 3\gamma \\ \end{bmatrix};\alpha,\beta,\gamma \in \Bbb{R}$$ But by multiplying this matrix by the mentioned vector we get $$ \begin{bmatrix} \alpha & 2\alpha & 3\alpha \\ \beta & 2\beta & 3\beta \\ \gamma & 2\gamma & 3\gamma \\ \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} 1 \\ 1 \\ -1 \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} 0\alpha \\ 0\beta \\ 0\gamma \end{bmatrix} $$ which means that regardless of the chosen coefficients, the vector will always be in kernel of $A^T$, thus there's no such matrix A.