Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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I think it was one of the Mariner probes in the 1960s/70s...The idea was to blast off from Cape Kennedy in Florida, reach a height of about twenty miles before the rocket's second stage fired and shifted the probe into orbit. At that point, stage three was to fire and send the package on a curved trajectory which would put the Mariner probe in the orbit of Venus, where it would take pics/fly around a bit/etc.
What actually happened was that the hugely expensive rocket and probe was stuffed into the atlantic ocean about sixty miles from the launch pad.
Oopsy.
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