00:00In 1962, NASA launched the Mariner 1 rocket, but five minutes in, it exploded over the Atlantic.
00:06Why? A missing hyphen in the code. Just one tiny dash, gone.
00:10That hyphen told the rocket how to adjust its course. Without it, the rocket went rogue.
00:15NASA lost $18 million. In 1962, money. Today, that's over $170 million.
00:22Erased by a typo, it's the most expensive punctuation mistake in history.
00:25One missing mark, and the stars slipped away.
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