Top 7 Most Expensive Mistakes of All Time - Page 5 of 9

The S.I. Unit Confusion

As we all know there are fixed units for measurement like Milli metre, centimeter, metre, kilometres, Milligram, gram, kilogram, litre and more. But Britishers uses different measurement measures called English Units like feet, inches, pounds, wounces and more. In 1999 Nasa launched Mars orbiter space mission and the directions to the satellite was given in meters and kilometres but Lockheed Martin Aerospace Company gave directions in feet and inches. And as a result the satellite was disturbed from its path and lost in space. In this project NASA’s 125 Million USD was wasted.