We have the wreckage of a very costly Mars lander, buried somewhere on the surface of Mars, to prove that idiotic idea to be rubbish.
Up until that crash happened, every vehicle launched had been completely computed in imperial units. at some point during Bush 41's regieme, they began to be converted, after computation, into SI units for purely political reasons. Now the conversion is no longer done, and they leave the engineers to do it the way that has always worked
” Now the conversion is no longer done, and they leave the engineers to do it the way that has always worked”
Yep, we all know that the metric system was not born out of necessity or by scientists. It was born out of politics and still is.