I've been watching many of the space walks this week as my good friends sister is the shuttle commander. As we all know the measurement of choice is English and they routinely discuss issues in English units. The NASA commentary is always in English (IE. the station is xx nautical miles above Africa) but several of the space walkers will slip into metric once in a while. The other day they were talking about how far one element of the station was to the pont were it was to be connected and the distance estimates were in meters. Another time there was a reference to "a few centimeters to go". BTW these were our domestic Astronauts not visiting ones.
Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372
