contentbotB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 7 months agoTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-down1external-linkTIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.everydayastronaut.comcontentbotB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 7 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@delirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilink5•7 months agoThe US has long required metric for all federal contracts
The US has long required metric for all federal contracts