On: Apollo – Funding for Moonshots

[kens]

As a historical note, the actual Apollo project to the moon cost $25.4 billion dollars, which corresponds to over $150 billion in current dollars. So this funding is about 4 orders of magnitude short of the real moonshot. (This is not meant as a criticism of Apollo Projects, but just to put things in scale.)

[mritchie712 → kens]

To be fair, they're not expecting you to put someone on the moon with $3M

> We expect you to have a big vision and a “Tesla Roadster”—a concrete first step, ideally something you can accomplish in a year or two

Seems the $3M is to get to that first step vs. achieve the vision.

[winrid → kens]

Isn't that what 10x engineers are for? :) :)