{"content":" On July 22, 1962, at 09:21:23 UTC, an Atlas-Agena rocket lifted off Launch Complex 12 at Cape Canaveral carrying Mariner 1, the first American spacecraft ever built to reach another pla The post In July 1962, a single missing hyphen in the guidance code of NASA’s Mariner 1 probe sent it veering off course seconds after launch, forcing range safety officers to destroy a Venus mission that had cost roughly $18 million — a typo Arthur C. Clarke later called the most expensive in history. appeared first on Space Daily .
In July 1962, a single missing hyphen in the guidance code of NASA’s Mariner 1 probe sent it veering off course seconds after launch, forcing range safety officers to destroy a Venus mission that had cost roughly $18 million — a typo Arthur C. Clarke later called the most expensive in history.
