Small Mistakes That Cost Millions To Fix

NASA and Its Measurement System -$192 million

In 1999, one of NASA’s vessels had completed a 10-month voyage in space on its way to Mars. However, scientists were amazed when they lost the rocket during the last moments of its journey. They had planned everything meticulously – so what happened?

Well, it turns out that during some of the major commands, some of the scientists were communicating with the imperial measurement system, whereas other members of the team were using the metric system. This caused to rocket to go in a different direction than planned – resulting in a $192 million mistake.