[GH85Carrera]

Captain, that is exactly what happened at NASA just after Kennedy set the goal for going to the moon before the end of the decade. The USA had only launched two men into sub orbital flights, and had not yet orbited the earth! Yet Kennedy said we will go to the moon, and back before the end of the decade.

All of sudden all the world's top engineers and scientist, came flooding to Florida. Canada, and Europe had a massive brain drain and the top engineers came floding to NASA for good jobs inventing how to make a rocket that can get to the moon. Hundreds of totally new technologies were either invented, or refined by orders of magnitude. New ways to even manufacturer some new products. The very first user programmable computer was on the moon command module. A compass is useless in space, so IMUs were reduced from the size of a fridge, to one that can go into space in a small capsule.

It was all about the task of how in the heck can they do it, and how many engineers can they hire. All the top people worked there, or for the companies providing the equipment. They threw enough money and engineers at it and solved the problem.

I did hear one wag say they did learn that no matter how much money and however many engineers you put on the task, it still takes nine months to make a baby.