SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

NASA uses a mix of both metric and Imperial (US Customary) systems, creating a hybrid approach. While the metric system is primarily used for science, navigation, and international collaboration (e.g., the International Space Station), Imperial units are frequently used for aerospace engineering, Shuttle-era legacy hardware, and public communication.

SNAFU

Their nuts and bolts are imperial.

so it’s like being multilingual, it makes Americans more clever, the best people in the world

Especially when they confuse the two sets of units and send a Mars probe to its doom.