NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched " BY ROBERT LEE HOTZ OCT. 1, 1999 12 AM PT Read more about this story from this link: Links to an external site. Is that shocking to you that a simple error in unit conversion cost us millions of dollars? Why should we use units for our measurements? Why is it important to have a consistent system for measuring units? Why are units important? Explain the importance of units in measurement by sharing an example of a situation that could go wrong because of confusion with missing units or incorrect interpretation of units