• maryjayjay@lemmy.world
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    Internal calculations were are all done in metric, but converted to traditional US units because many of the astronauts were pilots and more used to them

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      imperial system is based on metric(on wikipedia) so they calculed on metric, converted to imperial, that is basically metric but worse