The Ariane 5's Disintegration

Our next space story takes place in 1996 with the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 Flight 501 rocket. The software guiding the Mars climate orbiter was to blame for a dumb, dumb mistake. We're going to take a quick break and talk more about bad computer bugs. At the end of your first year, Discover credit cards automatically doubled all you earned from eating at your favorite soup restaurant. All the cashback from that trip also doubled where you sort of learned to snowboard.