NASA reworks its sums after Mars fiasco

Tony Reichhardt

Nature, 1999, vol. 401, issue 6753, 517-517

Abstract: Washington Confusion between English and metric units ultimately was to blame for the loss of the US space agency NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter.

Date: 1999
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