1 Aug
2001
1 Aug
'01
8:31 a.m.
"Sally" == Sally Manton smanton@hotmail.com writes:
Wasn't there a space mission that went up in a million-dollar explosion because someone typed a minus instead of a plus sign?
Mariner 1 had to be destroyed shortly after launch since it's guidance algorithm was wrong. The algorithm was wrong because of a mistranslation from typed formula to handwritten formula. Not quite a typo, but close.
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