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‘Houston, we have a problem’: $500,000 of high-tech equipment goes missing at NASA in a year

April 21, 2011 Comments off

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They might be able to send men into outer space – but it seems NASA can’t stop losing cameras, televisions and computers at its offices on the ground.

The U.S. space agency lost almost $500,000 of high-tech equipment at Kennedy Space Center in Florida last year, including a Vidge digital recorder worth $100,391.

Other items lost since 2008 include 11 Motorola handheld radios worth $35,582, a $18,000 wave reflectometer that checks for breaks in wiring and a $3,379 golf cart.

Lost property: The Space Station Processing Facility is part of the Kennedy Space Center, where 125 electrical items went missing in 2010Lost property: Read more…