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The Reason NASA Lost A Super Expensive Satellite Nasa/Getty Images By Cody Copeland/Jan. 2, 2021 2:49 pm EDT For a bunch of geniuses, the folks over at NASA sure have made some pretty boneheaded mistakes in the administration s more than six decades of space exploration. There was the time the administration teamed up with the Air Force on a foolhardy plot to nuke the moon just to show off to Russia. And the time they ignored engineer Roger Boisjoly about the faulty O-rings on the Challenger, which tragically exploded just after takeoff, killing all seven astronauts on board. Then at the end of the 20th century, when NASA was getting really ambitious with its plans to explore Mars, it launched a pair of spacecraft that were unfortunately doomed from the get-go, and would end up costing the administration (i.e., the taxpayers) quite the pretty penny. ....