How Do We Measure Up.(Brief Article)

From: Industrial Heating | Date: May 1, 2001 | Copyright information

ED KUBEL JR.

To The Metric System?

The loss of NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) in September 2000 due to a contractor using English rather than metric units of measurement in a navigation software program prompted the NASA Office of Inspector General to review the Agency's use of the metric system. By law and policy, the metric system is the preferred system of measurement within NASA. However, the Inspector General's review found that use of the metric syst...

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