[USMA:37260] RE: Orion

[Carleton MacDonald]

It looks like they have learned their lesson.  From The Washington Post, Friday, September 1:   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090100291.html?sub=AR   Lockheed Martin built several unmanned probes, including: 1998's Lunar Prospector; 1976 Viking probes of Mars; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which entered the red planet's orbit earlier this year; and the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter, which crashed because of a Lockheed Martin/NASA mismatching of metric and English measurement units. Carleton   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nat Hager III Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 08:34 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:37244] Orion   So Lockheed Martin's been awarded the contract to build the space-shuttle replacement, named Orion.  I certainly hope the entire design is metric, it looks encouraging at:    http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/140636main_ESAS_05.pdf     Nat