If you only caught the part you quoted, here is the preceding comments from
my fogged memory. Loosely quoting: "One mission to Mars was lost due to a
metric /english mix-up. It would nice to work only in metric. This current
mission will have english and metric units co-printed in the
documentation..." Then he went on about Boeing and Lockheed retooling. At
one point he mentioned about how bad the attempt to sell gas by the liter in
the US went.
Scott C
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Norman Werling
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:28 AM
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:12058] 07:12, NPR Morning Edition, NASA, EdWeiler
>
>
> Interview in which Ed Weiler said "NASA cannot tell Boeing,
> Martin Marietta,
> etc. to spend billions of dollars to retool to change from
> English to metric
> units." I presume the interviewer was Richard Harris and the interviewee
> was ED Weiler because I was just awakening and heard the magic
> words English
> and metric and NASA, jumped up and looked at the clock.
>
> Surely the interview will be replayed at 12 minutes after the hour or at
> least sometime again this morning.
>
> Norm
>
