The animations showing velocity, altitude, acceleration, etc, are all in metric, which leads me to believe the video was ‘dumbed down’ into non-metric units for the viewers (even though it sounded like it was an ‘internal’ commentary for the benefit of the technicians). The fact that the video was labelled as NASA Television/YouTube appears to confirm that.
It looks to me as if the program WAS designed and operated in metric units, with NASA converting it into obsolete units for the video soundtrack. John F-L From: Kilopascal Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:14 AM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: Antares Rocket Launch Is A Success, In Test Of Orbital Supply Vehicle : The Two-Way : NPR http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/21/178289293/antares-rocket-launch-is-a-go-in-test-of-space-station-supply-vehicle This is a big disappointment. I thought for sure that when Space-X launched it rockets last year in metric, it was the start of a new era. But not quite. Watch the video and you will everything is in feet and feet per second. Some of the comments are interesting though: I didn't want to mention this, but the main booster engines for the first stage were built in Ukraine, with Russian tech, for the Soviet moon launch that never happened. Disappointing, but true. If it was built in the Ukraine with Russian Technology, at least that part of the ship is metric. Maybe this is why they still use feet: Actually it is 50 year old NASA science, based on 70 year old Nazi science. The 30 year old NASA science, the space shuttle, was a wrong turn, down a dead end. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6268 - Release Date: 04/23/13
