The most expensive character in the world was a hyphen "-"

In 1962, NASA launched a space probe, the "Mariner 1", which had a mission to fly next to Venus.

Just 290 seconds after launch, it veered off course, and NASA had to send a command to make it destroy itself so that it would not land in a populated area

Later on, an investigation revealed that a hyphen "-" was missing in the probe's software, which issued the wrong commands

The cost of the project was a whopping $18 million (about $170 million in today's value)

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