And then there's this article (referenced in the article John links to): http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17350-nasa-criticised-for-sticking-to-imperial-units.html
This article mentions not only the infamous screw-up with the Mars Climate Orbiter, but also the DART crash, which I hadn't heard of before. Maybe (as one of the persons quoted in the article says) the best thing is for the current program review board to decide to scrap Constellation altogether, making the backtracking to US Customary Units moot. ;-) Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:50:07 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:45260] Re: NASA feedback about metric use Popular Science has a relatively similar article, which may get more exposure. http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/nasa-gets-heat-ditching-metric-system-new-shuttle-replacement?page = --- On Wed, 6/24/09, Hillger, Don <[email protected]> wrote: From: Hillger, Don <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:45258] NASA feedback about metric use To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 1:47 PM NASA can take online feedback at the following site http://www.nasa.gov/about/contact/ask_nasa_form.html for those who would like to suggest that NASA use the metric system for the Constellation Program. (They backed off of an earlier metric commitment, in case someone does not know, see http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17350-nasa-criticised-for-sticking-to-imperial-units.htm ) Don USMA Webmaster USMA list owner
