The Mars Meteorology Mission (1999)

Meteorology Mission During the Mars meteorology mission, NASA computers had made a mistake. The conversion to metric units from English was never converted. The wrong measurements had failed to launch up a space craft causing an accident. The weather orbit that was supposed to go into space never went. The failed meteorology mission of 1999 was caused by a machine error due to a computer not converting English units to metric units. Scientists didn't realize the mistake until they tried to send the space craft up into the air. Nobody had checked the work done on the computer, they didn't feel the need to do so, sadly a “separate piece of software took in the data assuming it was in the metric unit: newtons” (Grossman 4). This occurred on