Eugene,
Also please forward your email to Jeffrey Hanley, the NASA
Constellation program manager. I was unable to find a NASA email for
him, but he's on LinkedIn if anyone has an account there:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-hanley/b/556/6b4
On Monday, everyone on this list is to pick up the phone and call
their Congressional representatives of both houses.
And to USMA HQ: YOU BETTER BE ON THE PHONE WITH FOLKS IN D.C. AS WELL!
If nothing can be expected from them, I say it's time to make an end
run around our own government and make contact with foreign
governments who are expected to be participants in this program with
NASA.
Can you tell I'm royally pissed off!!??
On 30 May 2009, at 14:08, <mech...@illinois.edu> wrote:
From: <mech...@illinois.edu>
Date: 30 May 2009 14:05:53 EDT
To: brian.k.muirh...@nasa.gov
Subject: Draft Directive on Units
Dear Brian:
The draft Management Directive on units of measurement has been
brought to my attention.
As a veteran of ten years service at NASA-MSFC, and author of NASA
SP-7012, before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign where I did upper atmosphere research with NASA
sounding rockets, I remain, as a retiree, a firm advocate of SI for
all NASA future activities.
NASA can enjoy the full benefits of efficient cooperation with the
several other space exploring nations of this world only if NASA
continues on its path toward full implementation of SI in all
aspects of space exploration; hardware and data.
NASA policy requires SI. Exceptions must be increasingly rare.
Please do what you can to reject efforts to deviate from SI. Reject
non-SI units from the 19th Century.
Eugene A. Mechtly, PhD
