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WILL GIVE 45 POINTS AND BRAINLIEST!!!
In 1999 a $125 million dollar probe headed for Mars was lost due to calculation error. The Jet propulsion laboratory used the metric system for its portion of the project while Lockheed Martin Astronautics used the English system. People were not amused.
Imagine you are working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and you receive instructions to accelerate a space craft to one thousand miles per hour. However, the system only accepts commands in kilometers per hour. In a two paragraphs or less communication to Houston, clarify and confirm the instructions. Be sure to include your concern as well as provide the conversion. Time is essential so you may only use two paragraphs (ten sentences).

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NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.

A navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet and pounds.