NASA goes metric

[Alex Burman]

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?

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Alex Burman

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.