Which countries have landed men on the moon using garbage standards? Which countries have landed men on the moon using your preferred standards?
Of course, this is just to point out a different kind of error in GP's comment.
Also, in Fahrenheit 0-100 degrees roughly demarcates the survival zone for humans without special precautions.
You can see the mission report all measurements referred to are customary units.
Notwithstanding the units used for reporting, though, I had always heard that the actual work was done in metric (to avoid potential conversion errors).[1] Is that not correct?
[1] But see https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/
Objectively false in so many domains. Americans aren’t smarter than other people. But we are very good at organising resources for novel pursuits.
Yes, there are. A simple example is Latin America. Americans are willing to risk a recession, which predominantly falls on the poor, to stave off inflation. We’re slow to regulate and quick to let immigrate (even if we sing a song and dance about it, constantly) in a way most polities won’t tolerate. These come at costs that aren’t bearable for many, including in America. But the counterpoint is a tremendous capacity to reorganise and marshal resources.
Americans are great at many things, just like everybody else.
This is a tendency that has existed for generations, pre-dating the invention of central banking. It comes with tremendous costs—we see that in our inequality and homelessness. But the counterpoint to that is individual agency, regulatory reticence and capacity for innovation (and the blending of ideas, given America is a multigenerational multiethnic nation) that is relatively capital-intensive for others to match.
It’s a shame to see honestly.
Orion and SLS will medium to long term likely both be replaced by Starship / Superheavy.
The only non-American super impressive space program that I’ve seen is actually India’s ISRO. Their cost for traditional rockets price per kg to orbit is quite impressive, though Spacex dominates everyone on price due to reusability.