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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids with the first US president: George Washington.

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.

That left the rocket hanging on a 325-ton overhead crane, which would lift it over the transom into the building’s northeast high bay. The Boeing-built core stage weighs about 94 tons (85 metric ...