"Mike Thomas" wrote in message news:dbHQf.26336$Ui.145@edtnps84...

"Victor" wrote in message
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http://www.planetary.org/news/2006/0...Mars_Mars.html

The lessons learned from past failures, said McCleese, is that cheap
doesn't work. "With Mars Observer and Mars Climate Orbiter -- the two
examples where we failed -- we tried to do it as cheaply as we could;

Stupidity doesn't work. Some engineer programmed imperial data not the MKS
system
and lost in the 90's.

And that particular Mars mission was on
the high end costwise.
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