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Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
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Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:21:11 GMT
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Too many failed Mars probes: it was the Mars Climate Orbiter that had the
failed metric/english measurements.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco991110.html



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  Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake"
 
(...) I thought the Mars Observer had a different problem, as in the parts were built by different companies that didn't communicate clearly, and that the 'finished' product wasn't tested as a unit--the problem happened something like this-- the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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