Public Affairs Office, JSC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kelly Humphries, NASA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kim Dismukes, JSC Curator (ISS report web pages)
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Dear colleagues:
It was refreshing to see an International Space Station status report
(ISS-00-63) that used only International System (SI) units. Thank you
very much. I hope to see this continue to be the practice at Johnson
Space Center in the new millenium, thus bringing JSC into accordance
with the NASA Metric Policy directive. It is fitting to use only
international metric units in status reports on an international
project.
I cannot use status reports that rely on non-SI units, but reports such
as this one often provide excellent data for sample problems in my
Introductory Physics and Astronomy classes, as well as good PR for NASA.
My liberal arts college students understand the relationships among
metric units much better than they do those of the inch-foot-pound units
too often seen in the past on JSC reports. Those non-metric reports
serve no educational purpose for us and so we do not use them.
regards,
James R. Frysinger
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James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston
10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street
843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424
http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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