Breaking News: NASA makes mistakes.
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Mars Probe Lost Due to Simple Math Error
NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.
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