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 β the calculations that were carrieβ¦
@anduril@PicardTips Yes, but if they had just left everything in a proper measuring system rather than converting to and from metric, they could have saved themselves a lot of time and work. They might have made it to the moon in 65 rather than 69.
@anduril@PicardTips It's a good thing that they do use the metric system. Given that they had a head start, if they had been on the English system, they may have beat us there.