And of course, the 2000 ISS Report #47 out of JSC gave the only distance
in the report in feet.
Jim
Howard Ressel wrote:
>
> But when STS-92 went up a few weeks ago to visit and work on the ISS
> not a mention of SI was heard. Actually I did hear one commentator on
> NASA TV mention the approximate distance above the earth in km as
> well as miles but most every conversation, even between the ground
> and the crew, was WOMBAT.
>
> >>> Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/01/00 06:54pm >>>
> Tuesday, Oct 31 12:00 a local CBS station carried news of the
> launch
> of one US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International
> Space
> Station.
>
> In the background the words " about fifteen hundred meters per
> second";
> and a few seconds later, the words "forty seven hundred meters" could
> be
> clearly heard. I was not able to discern the context of these two
> fragmented
> quotations, but it was a pleasure hearing *spoken* SI from the ISS
> program.
>
> Gene.
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