Los dos grandes errores de la NASA, uno de ellos costó 125 millones de dólares: “Confundieron pulgadas con centímetros”

On September 23, 1999, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) permanently lost the Mars Climate Orbiter, a space probe valued at 125 million dollars. The loss occurred after the spacecraft traveled for nine months and covered a distance of 669 million kilometers.

The mission failure was attributed to a critical error involving measurement units, specifically the confusion between inches and centimeters among the engineering teams.