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[-] valar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Oh I'm sorry, did you guys not use imperial when you walked on the moon?"

[-] esc@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Did they?

[-] Deckname@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Well yes and no? Calculations were apparently done in metric units but operators were reading ~~fantasy~~ customary units.

Although data was stored internally in metric units, they were displayed as United States customary units. Fom the Wikipedia Article for the Apollo Guidance Computer

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

AFAIK no country on earth has brought humans to the moon since the Apollo missions ended, so no.

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