stackyFACTSNASA's 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere because one engineering team used imperial units while the other used metric. A $125 million spacecraft was entirely destroyed because rocket scientists effectively failed fifth-grade conversion math.
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