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• Commented on NASA OIG: $368 Million Cost to Make Constellation Metric Compliant

  I can only speak for myself. I have done my best to think in metric. Back in 1975 I challenged others in my High School Class (who were having fits about metric conversion) to go outside and walk 1 mile,...

• Commented on NASA OIG: $368 Million Cost to Make Constellation Metric Compliant

  No comment needed again. Quoting from the report: "In fact, NASA’s Chief Engineer said he could not recall one denial of the numerous requests for exceptions to the requirement to use the metric system."...

• Commented on NASA OIG: $368 Million Cost to Make Constellation Metric Compliant

  No need for me to comment, this passage from the report says plenty: "The Constellation Program’s Management Directive 030, issued December 2007, established the metric system as the standard system of measure and stated that use of the metric system...

• Commented on NASA OIG: $368 Million Cost to Make Constellation Metric Compliant

  The report also mentions software, which I find vexing. The engineering programs I've written over my career have been all metric until at the very end I had to convert to "traditional units" to provide an answer. It's SI inside,...

• Commented on NASA OIG: $368 Million Cost to Make Constellation Metric Compliant

  If you look in the summary IT's NOT NASA's FAULT! IT's the DOD! Quoting: "We found that because the Department of Defense (DoD) has not fully embraced the metric system as the manufacturing standard in its projects, and because of...

• Commented on NASA Still Can't Get That Metric Stuff Right

  Keith, Thanks for bringing up the metric problem again. This site is not to cheer NASA it's to analyze it. I've waited 25 years for this supposedly forward looking country to go metric and use metric. NASA is supposed to...

• Commented on Space Policy: Go Boldly

  Jeff Volosin's article does not mention Dr. Van Allen who lobbied for this type of a space program during his career, but was always dominated and marginalized by the mythic desires of the script Volosin laid out succinctly. When I...

• Commented on ESA/NASA Mars Agreement Signed (Update)

  My understanding is that NASA asked not long ago what it could do to encourage international cooperation. The number one reply from ESA and others was "please use the metric system." My original comment was that NASA "cooperation" in space...

• Commented on ESA/NASA Mars Agreement Signed (Update)

  I have contacted NASA about the fact they have an "metric exemption" for Orion and apparently all other vehicles. The boilerplate excuse for not using metric on Orion etc is they can't get enough fasteners in metric. Considering 90% of...

• Commented on Nowak Saga Drags Toward Closure: Update

  This would appear to be a good time to review Dr. Van Allen's thoughts on the manned space program and consider ending it for robotic work and space probes. http://www.issues.org/20.4/p_van_allen.html JAMES A. VAN ALLEN Is Human Spaceflight Obsolete? Risk is...

• Commented on ESA/NASA Mars Agreement Signed (Update)

  Yet again does "US cooperation" mean that NASA refuses to use metric as the rest of the world does? So what units will be used to fabricate the orbiters and landers?...

• Commented on Challenge Everything

  I have little faith this is anything but a typical management fad. NASA cannot even challenge itself to use the metric system. Big talk, little action....