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Comment by captainbenises | Hacker News Reader

It is impressive, but far less impressive than going from a suborbital lob to a moon landing in 9 years.

They've still got 8 years on that clock. Not to mention a rather smaller budget.

Nothing seems to speed up progress like a good old-fashioned prize.

First team that can send and retrieve two people to each:

  - $5 Billion USD for the moon
  - $100 Billion USD for mars

Who is offering that?

I know Google has a $30 million prize for putting a rover on the moon.