Surely this error occurred before in the early days of Space exploration. I can't remember which capsule it was but this confusion in units was cited as the cause of this earlier problem. I worked for an American technical company and found that they were still using British Thermal Units for heat calculations. It seems to me extremely lucky that this latest error occurred with an unmanned module !! Think of the situation if it it had been a manned system.
Surely this error occurred before in the early days of Space exploration. I can't remember which capsule it was but this confusion in units was cited as the cause of this earlier problem. I worked for an American technical company and found that they were still using British Thermal Units for heat calculations. It seems to me extremely lucky that this latest error occurred with an unmanned module !! Think of the situation if it it had been a manned system.