contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 7 months agoTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-down1external-linkTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 7 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCarbonIceDragonlinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoI think literally every time I had a science teacher want to drill into student’s heads the importance of including units in one’s physics or chemistry calculations, they brought up this story. I wonder what example they used before this
I think literally every time I had a science teacher want to drill into student’s heads the importance of including units in one’s physics or chemistry calculations, they brought up this story. I wonder what example they used before this
None, that’s why it happened to NASA.