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• banause@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Contrary to urban myth, NASA did use the metric system for the Apollo Moon landings. SI units were used for arguably the most critical part of the missions

  ukma.org.uk/why-metric/…/the-moon-landings/

  Which is, btw, true for most of academia/research/engineering.

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More like, how many Mars orbiters have been lost because of the US measurements?

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Part of all of them? I guess?

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