The NASA-JPL News Briefings are entirely metric. John Grysinger, JPL Chief Scientist for Curiosity, even pronunces "kilometer" as prefix "kilo" plus unit "meter"! (others say kil-lomiter). Reporters don't complain.
The next next Briefing is Friday at 10:00 (Pacific Time Zone) on the NASA Channel. Tune in! Gene Mechtly ________________________________ From: Kilopascal [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:04 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: NASA - Multimedia - Video Gallery Here is the problem as I see it. Listening to the video there are only 2 incidences where metric is spoken, the rest is USC. Despite the fact that this craft was designed, engineered and built in metric, we are not allowed to get a feel for those units because NASA insists we really want USC. We don't even get a simple choice. Where can I go to hear this same information but in real engineering units? Why must I be forced to listen to someone insulting me with units of measure that are not only obsolete, they don't work and are the prime reason American industry has to go to the metric world to get products produced the right way? It was a joy to hear that NASA was forced to cancel the Constellation project because they insisted on using inches in the design and that future space projects will be done by private companies using metric units. NASA really needs to come into the 21-st century, hopefully before the Chinese and others pass it by. I wish the USMA would stop hiding in the corner somewhere and work with NASA to start speaking metric in its videos and media releases and quit hiding its use of metric behind the scenes. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=146903741 It is a real shame that this "press kit" puts the USC in the primary position and metric in brackets when the metric are the design units. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/MSLLaunch.pdf
