From Space.com
Nasa goes metric :
http://www.space.com/news/070108_moon_metric.html

Hope they'll not kill our favorites like :Football fields, pools volume, cel-phone size. OK, don't get me started.
That's good news anyway.

About time, too. I always thought that "feet per second" was a ridiculous & cumbersome way to describe spacecraft velocity, to say nothing of the unnecessary complication of converting these units in base 12 (or worse) for other applications. Just a bit disgusted that it took almost eight years after the loss of MCO to do this.

Yeah I remember when the Lockheed Martin Mars lander got lost

Those are the journalist system of measure... a system in which neither metric or imperial units will do:
http://www.unsoughtinput.com/index.php/200...-metric-system/

And I must add:
Energy -- Hiroshima Bombs
Mass -- Elephants, Whales, Jupiters

Hey, remember that there are only 6 billions people that do not live in US and most of them don't know how much is big a Football Field or Manatthan Island...
I propose pizza as the unit of measure of lenght, mass and volume. Should be more universal!

Good move by NASA. You know what they say, 28.35 grams of prevention is worth 0.45 kilograms of cure.

..and a larger unit would be a gondola or a Ferrari, right?

Exactly! though you have to specify which model of Ferrari...