The Intuitive Machines lander issue was that no one disarmed the safety switch on the laser guidance system. (No, really!) Luckily NASA had a backup system installed that ended up working better anyway.
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Dude looks like Hank and Dale had a baby.
Other dude looks like the angry teacher from Daria
They did it once by mixing meters and feets, and crashed the Mars lander.
Edit: looked it up, wasn’t actually meters vs feet, but newton-seconds vs some American eagles per gun unit for force
it happened again with the Intuitive Machines lander that landed on the moon last week
The Intuitive Machines lander issue was that no one disarmed the safety switch on the laser guidance system. (No, really!) Luckily NASA had a backup system installed that ended up working better anyway.
Pretty much the hardware version of && false
Hopefully, the transition to metric is soon and I can stop reading this same joke every week.
Pound-seconds, I believe. Good ol’ LM giving imperial numbers to NASA.
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If anyone is interested there is a wonderful walk about one of the apollo flight computers