No, it's real. It wasn't European though.
One of the Mars landers, Rockwell did it in
English calcuations and NASA does everything in
metric, and no one noticed.
The lander crashed into Mars really fast.
That was 1 1/2 ago or so. (What's that in metric :-)
Paul.
mgamgb wrote:
>>>>>"Because we don't HAVE to - our trading partners come to us, so they
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>>>>>like our weights and measures or go elsewhere"
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> Was there a European space load with weight given in kg, but the launch
> calculations were done by NASA in pounds? Or is that an urban myth?
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> Cheers
> ian f
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