What resulted was the Mariner program, a series of interplanetary probes launched between 1962 and 1973 that performed flyby missions of the inner planets. The list of accomplishments of the ...
One of history’s most infamous coding mistakes—an absent hyphen—led to the destruction of NASA’s Mariner 1 spacecraft just moments after launch, costing the agency a staggering $18.5 million.
Affected vehicles include the Ford Escape and Fusion as well as the Mercury Mariner and Milan. The investigation centers around an issue with the throttle body in those cars that, according to ...