NASA has ostensibly used the metric system since about 1990, the statement said, but English units are still employed on some missions, and a few projects use both.

This video breaks down why metric is the global standard, how it’s defined by the laws of physics, and why the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar remain the last holdouts.

If NASA chooses to push forward with the Agency’s use of the metric system, near-term costs may increase and short-term risk (both to schedule and mission success) may rise to some degree.

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new ...

NASA specified metric units in the contract. NASA and other organizations worked in metric units, but one subcontractor, Lockheed Martin, provided thruster performance data to the team in pound ...

It’s simple, it’s global… but not everyone loves the metric system. From historical holdouts to cultural defiance, this video dives into the reasons why some countries—especially the U.S ...

NASA images may help track sewage in coastal waters By Sofia Caetano Avritzer July 7, 2025. ... Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-.

NASA on Friday announced its selection of Blue Origin to build a second Human Landing System for its Artemis program to return ... It will stand 16 meters tall and have a dry mass of 16 metric tons.

The orbital path of asteroid 29075 (1950 DA), showing where it intersects with Earth's orbit. (Image credit: NASA/ JPL) Size: 0.81 mile (1.3 kilometers) Mass: 78 million tons (71 metric tons) The ...

NASA has chosen a Blue Origin-led team to develop a second lunar landing system for the ... Another version of the lander is also being designed to take as much as 30 metric tons of cargo mass ...

American space agency NASA says work on the second iteration of the Space Launch System rocket, the Block 1B, is already ... As it stands, the ICPS weighs 72,197 pounds (32.7 metric tons) ...

The contractor, Lockheed Martin, had used English units, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used metric, and someone had converted between the two incorrectly. There went $327.6 million down the ...