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In 1998, NASA launched its Mars Climate Orbiter. After months of travel, the multimillion dollar spacecraft missed the intended altitude to enter Mars’ atmosphere. This navigation error resulted in the complete destruction of the spacecraft. What caused such a failure? A subcontractor in the engineering team failed to make a simple conversion of English units to metric.
Not only did this failure cost embarrassment to the NASA team, it also cost millions of dollars to be thrown out into, well, space. The lack of checking that unit conversions were done correctly, is also a lack of QA. ...