Is China’s program metric? I would assume ESA’s is. Once could argue our big failure with the mars prob was that we were in a hybrid of units and they got mixed up. If it was ALL SI then it would never have happened.
Howard From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Stanislav Jakuba Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 9:40 AM To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: [USMA 1479] Moon flight ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. One more comment to the "We flew to the Moon with inches" argument: Without trying to diminish the Moon Flight achievement, we would not have gotten off the ground without the metric designed and built-in-Russia first stage on the rocket. It was not because "made-in-Russia" made it cheaper; it was because just one scientific genius there, the only person in the world, figured out the technology needed to control the burning rate on that huge scale. So it is still today, although I do not know about the Chinese. NASA already was on the way to metrication judging from how many metric training seminars I presented at various centers from JPL to Huntsvile AL at that time. Why the US did not complete the "phasin-in-metric" is still debated. I blame mostly schools, where the teachers, on all levels, taught conversions instead of the "system." Trying to sell my training seminars to teachers organizations - "oh we know all about the metric units. Get lost." Stan J.
_______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
