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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (31286)9/30/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: Richard Habib  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 93625
 
Here's some folks having a bad week. From the Wind River thread. Ouch.

To: James Connolly (6429 )
From: James Connolly Thursday, Sep 30 1999 5:53PM ET
Reply # of 6430

Navigation snafu caused Orbiter crash, NASA says
eet.com

"According to NASA officials, a team at contractor Lockheed Martin, which built the Orbiter, used English units of measurement to calculate a critical burn to place the satellite in orbit around Mars. However, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent the command in metric units"

Regards
JC.