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Britain also invented Imperial measurement system that is still used in the USA while being extremely outdated and inconvenient.
The US just can't adopt changes. It will most probably die as an XVIII century country with a pile of juridical clutches and props.
The US is more flexible with systemic change than most countries, which is why it led the way in the 20th century in terms of societal and technological progress. We achieved boots on the moon (using metric AND the imperial system ;) during the Apollo mission; Britain by contrast achieved celebrations as conscription ended and loud drunken Beatles concerts, but not much else.
Have a day.
Only the instruments for the astronauts displayed imperial units. All the science and engineering was done in metric.
And much of the calculations were done by computers. And I mean the wonderful ladies that made spaceflight happen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Area_Computers