In 1999, NASA spacecraft (Mars Climate Orbiter) burned up in Mars' atmosphere

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Did You Know? In 1999, NASA spacecraft (Mars Climate Orbiter) burned up in Mars' atmosphere because all the units were in the metric system except for one contractors' (Lockheed Martin) numbers, which were in US Industrial units. source

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