- Web of Spies
- The New Austronaut
- Online Shopping for Dummies
- The End of the Letter
- Angry Labels
- End of Star Trek
- Has It Come To This?
- Power to the Privileged
- All the President’s Numbers
- Straight to DVD
- Artificial Intelligence
- Campaign by the Numbers
- Needed: A Fed for the World
- A Time of Gifts
- The War Within
- Days that Changed History
- Final Moments
- Fear Itself
- 9/11 Biographies
- China’s Subtle Spying
- And For Giuliani’s Second Act…
- 9/11 Memorial Suggestion
- Impeach, Censure, Enough
- Afterword: Post Cold War Era
- Getting Lost
- Future of Arafat
- Yawn
- Budget Surplus Problem
- Lost Mars Orbiter
- McVeigh Execution
- Egg Donor
Lost Mars Orbiter
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NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used English units for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
For that reason, information failed to transfer between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin in Colorado and the mission navigation team in California. Lockheed Martin built the spacecraft.
“People sometimes make errors,” said Edward Weiler, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Science in a written statement.-CNN
