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I'm sure it could be done in 15 years if there was the will. Like you, I'm
not sure if there will be for a very long time. The driving force that got
men on the moon was created under pretty unique circumstances.

- Michael

Yes, Apollo was before its time. Rather like the jet engine and the atom
bomb.

Just to take this even further from the original topic, neither of those
is good examples. The atomic bomb was very much a product of its time -
all the major powers were doing nuclear research and any one of them
could have been first. In particular, the US was very worried by signs
of nuclear research in Japan and went to some lengths to destroy it,
such as smashing their cyclotron and dropping the bits into Tokyo Bay
(the germ warfare research, which was superior to the US and battle
tested, was quietly shipped back to the homeland)
Obviously, the effort to make the bomb was very much a big wartime
project and only possible in war, but it was only one of several.
And jet engines were being developed in both the UK and Germany in the
1930s. I don't know much about pre-WW 2 efforts in other countries.
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