And the Chinese still think we "deliberately" bombed their embassy?

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Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 11:01 PM
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Subject: FC: Mars Orbiter error statement; still in Wyoming

>Committee on Science
>F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Chairman
>Ralph M. Hall, Texas, Ranking Democrat
>www.house.gov/science/welcome.htm
>September 30, 1999
>
>SENSENBRENNER STATEMENT ON MARS ORBITER ERROR
>
>WASHINGTON, D.C. - NASA earlier today announced the preliminary findings
>from the investigation into last week's loss of the $125 million Mars
>Orbiter mission show human error between command stations. "The peer review
>preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units (e.g.,
>inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key
>spacecraft operation. This information was critical to the maneuvers
>required to place the spacecraft in the proper Mars orbit," read NASA's
>press release. House Science Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner,
Jr.,
>(R-WI) released the following statement:
>
>"I'm speechless."




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