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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a752
- From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
- Subject: Metric again
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:03:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <17268@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > John Roberts writes:
- >
- > By the way, I think you'll be much happier in the long run if you do your
- > calculations in SI (metric) units. I often do simple calculations in
- > standard
- > units, but the tough problems are much more easily handled using SI.
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-
- I am delighted to find that NASA seem finally to be moving toward
- metric, not just in theory but in reality. Ron Baalke's postings about
- various spacecraft now use metric units as the primary system, with
- traditional American units in brackets. About a week ago I joined a public
- tour through the Goddard Space Flight Center (just north of Washington DC).
- Goddard has a backup Shuttle mission control center which can take over
- Shuttle operations if the Houston center is down. There was a Shuttle up at
- the time, and data related to the mission were being displayed in real time
- on a large display at the front of the control room (the tour saw the room
- from behind a glass wall). Shuttle altitute was listed in km, and velocity
- was listed in km/sec.
- Does anyone know if NASA uses degrees C for reporting things like the
- Shuttle cabin temperature and the temperature of experiments?
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- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
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