Watch out for the units – Metric or English?
February 20, 2012 in Blog
Can you believe that due to an absolutely ridiculous oversight on the part of NASA Systems Engineering, the $125M (yes, that’s 125 million dollars) Mars Climate Orbiter was lost?
Apparently Lockheed, the company that built the spacecraft, had used pounds during the design of engines, while NASA scientists, responsible for the operation and flight, thought the information was in metric units.
Hey! Units matter! Looks like NASA needs some math help too.
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