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Three strikes - I'd think Lockheed-Martin owes NASA a LOT of money.

"LOS ANGELES - The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of the sun may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards, an investigating board said Friday."

"NASA’s Mars Polar Lander, built by the company, was lost in December 1999, probably when a sensor cut off its descent motor too soon. A few months earlier, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost when no one noticed that Lockheed Martin Astronautics was giving NASA navigation data in English units rather than metric."

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