5 MOST EXPENSIVE Space Mission Failures EVER! [4K]

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To learn more about 5 MOST EXPENSIVE Space Mission Failures EVER, visit our website: www.darkspace.co In this video you'll find out 5 Most Expensive Space Missions Failures the world has ever witnessed, in terms of both the lives-lost and the money spent. Here is the list of top five most costly spaceflight mission failures: 1) Space Shuttle Columbia - $13 Billion Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Serving for over 22 years. 2) Space Shuttle Challenger - $5.5 Billion Rockwell International was contracted by Nasa to convert STA-099 to a space-rated orbiter: Challenger. Challenger was the second orbiter of NASA's space shuttle program to be put into service, after Columbia. 3) Mars Climate Orbiter - $327.60 Million Mars Climate Orbiter was a robotic space probe manufactured by Lockheed and launched by NASA’s JPL. MCO was launched in 1998, to study climate, atmosphere and surface changes on Mars. 4) Fobos-Grunt - $163 Million Fobos-Grunt was a Russian spacecraft developted by Lavochkin. It intended to obtain a soil sample from the Mars moon Phobos and return it to Earth. 5) Mars Polar Lander - $154 Million Mars Polar Lander was a robotic spacecraftlander launched by NASA to study the soil and climate of Planum Australe, a region near the south pole on Mars Like this video and subscribe to my channel for more content like this. Spacial credits to NASA Licensing: Video segments used are either not copyrighted, free for public use or transformative to fall under fair use. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html