contentbotB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 9 months agoTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1110arrow-down1external-linkTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comcontentbotB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 9 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@unphazedlink4•9 months agoI remember this on the news as a kid. Oh how I laughed… now as a taxpaying adult - “#$$#@!!!”
I remember this on the news as a kid. Oh how I laughed… now as a taxpaying adult - “#$$#@!!!”