contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 month 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-up1115arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1112arrow-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.comcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 month agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareunphazed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoI remember this on the news as a kid. Oh how I laughed… now as a taxpaying adult - “#$$#@!!!”
I remember this on the news as a kid. Oh how I laughed… now as a taxpaying adult - “#$$#@!!!”