[post_page_title]An out-of-this-world ‘oops'[/post_page_title]
This is one of those examples of people who really, really, messed up, that fall into the category of “no matter how badly we botch something at work, at least we won’t compare to that case where…”
What happened in this particular scenario? NASA lost $327.6 million after its Mars Orbiter went down due to human error – the teams responsible for navigating it didn’t communicate properly about which measurement system they were using for the calculation of trajectories. In the end, one used the imperial system, while the other used metric.
