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[–] Psythik 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why the fuck is/was NASA using the US customary system? Science is always done in metric, even in the US.

[–] Anticorp 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It says NASA was using metric, Lockheed Martin used imperial. Read it again.

[–] gerbler 6 points 3 days ago

IIRC they had outsourced to a contractor and that contractor was using imperial