NASA goes metric

[Alex Burman]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1926236
NASA will be using the metric system on its new missions to the moon to encourage cooperation with other space agencies. Its about time, wouldn't you say Dave? ;)

[iCurtis]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1926236
NASA will be using the metric system on its new missions to the moon to encourage cooperation with other space agencies. Its about time, wouldn't you say Dave? ;)

If you're referring to the whole Metric/Standard conversion incident, which resulted in the loss of a rover, it wasn't NASA's fault. It was Lockheed Martins. :cool:

Here's what Dave had to say about it. (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=304697&postcount=38)