Question

In 1999, confusion between the use of the English and metric systems resulted in the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was intended to study that planet's water history. How could costly mistakes like this be avoided in the future?

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(CNN) -- NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.