Landsat 6 *or Why Space is Hard
Fire engine.
Lift off!
We have lift off.
Landsat 6 launched on October 5, 1993
but never made it to orbit.
NASA’s team of scientists and engineers got to work immediately
to figure out what went wrong.
Turns out, it was a rupture in the rocket fuel chamber.
They used failure as an opportunity to learn.
Six years later, the team launched Landsat 7,
one of the most technologically advanced earth observing satellites of its generation,
still in use today!