• The Most Expensive Typo in History: When a Missing Hyphen Destroyed a Spacecraft

  • Jan 13 2025
  • Length: 2 mins
  • Podcast

The Most Expensive Typo in History: When a Missing Hyphen Destroyed a Spacecraft

  • Summary

  • The Most Expensive Typo in History: When a Missing Hyphen Destroyed a Spacecraft" (Alternative: "The $15 Million Character: How a Missing Hyphen Sent a NASA Mission Up in Flames")

    Description: "Think your typos are costly? Wait until you hear about the missing hyphen that made NASA blow up its own spacecraft. Join Blake and Victoria as they uncover how a single character mistake turned a $15 million space mission into a fireball - and why these devastating errors keep happening in modern tech.

    Did you know companies still lose billions to tiny code errors, even with today's advanced technology? From spacecraft explosions to billion-dollar trading disasters, the smallest typing mistakes can have astronomical consequences.

    🚀 In this episode:

    • The incredible story of Mariner 1's 293-second journey to disaster
    • How a single missing character caused a $1.3 billion trading catastrophe in 2015
    • Why your brain is actually working against you when proofreading
    • The fascinating psychology of why experts miss obvious mistakes
    • How tech giants like Google and Amazon are deliberately creating errors to prevent disasters

    ⚠️ Warning: This episode might make you triple-check your next important email! Perfect for tech professionals, managers, or anyone who's ever sent an email they immediately regretted.

    🎯 Discover why some of the world's smartest people keep making the simplest mistakes - and what we can learn from their million-dollar errors.

    #TechDisasters #CodingMistakes #SpaceMission #NASA #QualityControl #BusinessMistakes #TechFails #BusinessEnigmas #Engineering #ProjectManagement

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