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NASA lost a Martian probe when the teams failed to convert the europeans stuff in metric to the rest of the project's English measurements.

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That one gets even more hilarious. It was a fixable error, but since the bureaucracy wasn't followed correctly, nothing happened.

"The discrepancy between calculated and measured position, resulting in the discrepancy between desired and actual orbit insertion altitude, had been noticed earlier by at least two navigators, whose concerns were dismissed because they "did not follow the rules about filling out [the] form to document their concerns"."