The official report into the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter raises many issues that need to be coolly scrutinized. High on the list are NASA's efforts to increase its cost-effectiveness by launching ‘better, faster, cheaper’ missions.
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Coming to terms with the human factor. Nature 402, 217 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/46107
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