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To: PAR35
Wasn't this the same company that didn't know the difference between metric and British units of measure?


Nah.

That was a NASA/JPL (between the labs) problem.
159 posted on 02/27/2007 3:32:43 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

I looked it up. It was Lockheed on the Mars orbiter/lander:

"The prime contractor for the mission, Lockheed Martin, measured the thruster firings in pounds even though NASA had requested metric measurements."

http://www4.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/10/orbiter.03/

Was Lockheed the contractor on the Hubble deal as well?


208 posted on 02/27/2007 4:07:07 PM PST by PAR35
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