Typical government bureaucracy.
So busy trying to manipulate people's lives that they neglect the job we pay them to do.
"NASA officials said they believe the problem was probably caused by a miscommunication on measurement between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team in Colorado, and the mission navigation team in California.
"The problem here was not the error, it was the failure of NASA's systems engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes to detect the error. That's why we lost the spacecraft," said NASA's Weiler.
NASA officials said that the mix-up caused the craft to draw to within 60 km of the Mars instead of the expected 150 km, ruining the mission.
"Our inability to recognize and correct this simple error has had major implications," said Dr. Edward Stone, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA spent approximately US$94 million to build the Orbiter."
Mars Mission's Metric Mixup