Most expensive crash in history caught on camera

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by darius359au

Its amazing how many times a multi million dollar accident can be traced back to a 2 dollar part - Apollo 13's explosion was traced back to a 50 cent switch that hadn't been changed when the power requirements for the system had been beefed up or, in this case , a bit of condensation on a sensor

We still use the Apollo 13 incident in our system engineering classes. There aint so such thing as a "small" change.

[Stealth Hunter]

We could avoid problems with spacecraft today if the government would quit cutting NASA's budget and stop forcing them to rely on funding from universities and such.