[ahmeneeroe-v2]

>no doubt buoyed by having put astronauts on the Moon

NASA did this using customary units

>I've been missing it my entire life since

Surely you've learned by now that you're missing childhood, not an actual thing about the US? I'm asking this as someone who does think this era was peak Americana, but for totally different reasons than you present, and having not been alive then myself.

[pezezin]

> NASA did this using customary units

The Apollo Guidance Computer performed all internal calculations in SI units, and only converted to US customary units for display:

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

[ahmeneeroe-v2]

yes, I know and surely you understand that the on-board computer was just one part of many in a years-long program that got men onto the moon