Aug 11, 2021
4 min read
Some Very Smart People Made This Very Simple Mistake and It Cost Them $327.6 Million
Oops!
On December 11th, 1998, cheers erupted at mission control as a critical phase of the Mars Surveyor ’98 program cleared Earth’s atmosphere and was on its way to the Red Planet. The Mars Climate Orbiter was going to be put into orbit around Mars with the purpose of scanning the atmosphere and surface conditions…
