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
Fri, 29 May 2015
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.
The problem turned out to be a small
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