While writing a glorious chapter, NASA also left its most embarrassing goofs, from equipment installed backwards to errors with the metric system, which led to the missing of the Mars Climate Orbiter.

在半个世纪的辉煌中，NASA曾出现一些难堪的失误，从装反了的仪器，到英制单位惹的祸，后者直接导致了火星气候轨道器的失踪。

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This puts Mars Climate Orbiter into an altogether different (and more embarrassing) class of space mishaps.

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But then, on September 30th, it emerged that the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter was not so mysterious after all.

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After the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter in September, an investigation board was set up to determine what had gone wrong.

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