Metric mission.NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. hopes to send astronauts to the moon by 2020--the first such mission since 1972. Unlike their predecessors, these lunar explorers won't be measuring the distance from Earth to the moon's surface in miles. NASA has decided to ditch these standard units Standard units may refer to:
Although NASA adopted metric units Noun 1. metric unit - a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds); "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric" metric such as kilometers around 1990, the remainder of the U.S. primarily uses the non-metric system. That includes some aerospace companies that work with the space agency. Instead of having to convert between the two systems, NASA hopes sticking solely to metrics will help avoid errors. That's one small step for metrics, and one giant leap for NASA. |
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