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NASA didn’t begin to standardize on metric until 1990. Far after Voyager was developed and launched.



NASA already used metric internally for the moon landings

https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/...

And I doubt that calculations for the voyager mission where done in imperial. The output and for contractors yes, but internally it's metric.




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