The Lewis Spacecraft Mission was conceived as a demonstration of NASA’s Faster, Better, Cheaper (FBC) paradigm. Lewis was successfully launched on Aug. 23, 1997, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV-1). Over the next 3 days a series of on-orbit failures occurred including a serious malfunction of the attitude control system (ACS). The ACS issues led to improper vehicle attitude, inability to charge the solar array, discharge of batteries and loss of command and control. Last contact was on Aug. 26, 1997. The spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere and was destroyed 33 days later. This mission may have been faster and cheaper, but in retrospect it was at the expense of better.