That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

The Register
Nov 29, 2023, 11:14 am113 pts
Forget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about Engineer and astro-futurist Chris Lewicki wrote an essay this week - that would not be out of place in our Who, Me? archives - about a testing mistake that nearly transformed half a billion dollars worth of Mars Rover into…

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