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Low hanging fruit. Also, we haven't really broken many speed records in the last 50 years.

So what happens first, AGI or traveling at close to the speed of light?

This doesn't really get us closer to the speed of light, but we have broken lots of speed records in the last 50 years:

The ones that actually count - air vehicle rocket and air vehicle air-breathing, were set in 1967 and 1976.