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moon shot
noun
variants or moonshot
ˈmün-ˌshät
plural moon shots or moonshots
1
a
: a spacecraft mission to the moon
And among the nearly endless tasks that had to be completed for the Apollo moon shot, one woman spearheaded a critical engineering project: testing all the small gear the astronauts would take with them to the lunar surface.
Kathryn Tully
b
: an extremely ambitious project or mission undertaken to achieve a monumental goal
He is leading biology's moon shot; the Human Genome Project, a $3 billion, 15-year effort to pinpoint the location of all 100,000 human genes.
Paul Hoffman
This month, a group of billionaires … announced a moonshot of their own—a $1 billion joint venture to develop clean energy technology and bring it to market.
Alan Fleischmann
THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
article
5 year delta
"We Choose to go to the Moon:" JFK's Moon Shot
Dec 11, 2017
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/we-choose-go-moon-jfks-moon-shot