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Mars Probe Lost Due to Simple Math Error

NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.

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A goal isn t a mission

A heated argument recorded in the White House in 1962 offers a cautionary lesson in mission-setting for leaders today.

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NASA pledges acute awareness of safety 20 years after Columbia

Seven astronauts lost their lives on space shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003, due to a series of technical and organizational problems at NASA.

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Understand why Brazil was kicked out of the International Space Station

Understand why Brazil was kicked out of the International Space Station
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Inside China s Plans To Conquer Space

China s space plans are helping America focus its own moonshot.

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