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eps 7 months ago

Not to beat the dead horse but NASA predominantly uses metric units.

Aaargh20318 7 months ago | parent [-]

Also, they got their lead in space tech mainly because of a German scientist (Werner von Braun).

On the Apollo program, all the calculations were done in metric (obviously). The computers all worked in metric internally and then converted to imperial for display. They actually had to waste some of their very limited cpu cycles on converting to imperial because the US astronauts couldn’t handle the metric system.