Oops! NASA once lost a $125 million flight because Engineers Forgot to Convert to Metric

Oops! NASA once lost a $125 million flight because Engineers Forgot to Convert to Metric

Here’s what you’ll learn by reading this story: The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) was launched in late 1998 and was predicted to reach Mars nine months later. But that didn’t happen. When the MCO approached Mars, it got too close and either burned up in the atmosphere or got lost in some other way. A … Read more