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Re: NASA goes metric
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Originally Posted by Alex Burman View Post
http://science.slashdot.org/article..../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.

Here's what Dave had to say about it.
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