It was a Thursday morning in September 1999 when the Mars Climate Orbiter disappeared. Approaching the Red Planet and manoeuvring for entry into the atmosphere, it lost contact with NASA controllers and vanished – $US327.6 million worth of space jun
It was a Thursday morning in September 1999 when the Mars Climate Orbiter disappeared. Approaching the Red Planet and manoeuvring for entry into the atmosphere, it lost contact with NASA controllers and vanished – $US327.6 million worth of space junk.
