Fast Milestones

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1	Project	Milestone	Time from start (days)	Year	Note		https://patrickcollison.com/fast
2	Bank Americard	Dee Hock rolls out Bank Americard for a local bank, having signed up 100k customers	90	1968	Bank Americard had existed for 10 years prior
3	P-80 Shooting Star	Designed and delivered for testing	143	1943	America's first turbojet combat aircraft. In comparison, the F-16 took from start of design (1972) to first prototypes it took two years
4	Empire State Building	Design finished	105		Since start at 30th August 1929, finished (assumed) 15th December
5	Empire State Building	26th floor completed	95		Since start of construction, March 17th 1930
6	Empire State Building	Half of the steel frame complete	132		Since start of construction, March 17th 1930
7	Empire State Building	Steel frame completed	186		Since start of construction, March 17th 1930
8	Empire State Building	Construction finished	410	1930	Since start of construction, March 17th 1930
9	Javascript	Javascript prototype created	10	1995	Perhaps 6-15 May 1995 https://www.quora.com/In-which-10-days-of-May-did-Brendan-Eich-write-JavaScript-Mocha-in-1995
10	Javascript	JS shipped into production (Netscape 2.0)	135		But see https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-10-day-programming-language-is-a-myth/
11	Git	Git self-hosted	4		Source: Wikipedia
12	Git	First public release of Linux on Git	17	2005
13	Git	Git 1.0 released	262
14	Sputnik	Initial design meeting with Korolev	22
15	Sputnik	Final project approved	175
16	Sputnik	Preliminary design work completed	342
17	Sputnik	Original design completely changed to a simpler one	557
18	Sputnik	Sputnik launched	788	1955
19	Apollo	Feasability study competition announced	33	1960	Assuming start at July 28, 1960, source wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions +https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/v1p1.htm#1960-b
20	Apollo	Contracts for initial designs awarded	89
21	Apollo	Kennedy promises to land a man on the Moon	301
22	Apollo	First Apollo rocket launch (SA-1)	456
23	Apollo	Construction of the Kennedy Space Center starts	703
24	Apollo	First flight of Saturn V rocket	2660	1967
25	Apollo	First crewed Apollo mission (Apollo 7)	2997
26	Apollo	First manned lunar orbit (Apollo 8)	3068
27	Apollo	Moon landing (Apollo 11)	3275	1969
28	SpaceX Falcon 9	First (failed) launch of Falcon 1	1408	2006	Largely wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
29	SpaceX Falcon 9	First successful launch of Falcon 1	2327
30	SpaceX Falcon 9	First launch of Falcon 9	2941
31	SpaceX Falcon 9	First first stage vertical landing	4968
32	SpaceX Falcon 9	First humans sent into orbit	6589	2020
33	SpaceX vertical landing	First grasshoper test	357	2012	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_development_program#:~:text=SpaceX%20has%20been%20developing%20the,reusability%20of%20space%20launch%20vehicles.&text=SpaceX's%20long%20term%20goal%20is,was%20publicly%20announced%20in%202011. start at 30th Sept 2011
34	SpaceX vertical landing	First propulsive reentry and descent F9R test (Flight 6, fail)	730
35	SpaceX vertical landing	First successful propulsive reentry and descent F9R test (Flight 9)	921
36	Marinship	Construction site chosen	1	1942	https://patrickcollison.com/fast
37	Marinship	Construction proposal presented in DC	7
38	Marinship	Construction started	22
39	Marinship	First ship built	197
40	Pentagon	Construction contracts finalized and construction start	45	1941	After authorization on 28th July 1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon#History
41	Pentagon	Design work finished	308		Yes, they started building before they had the design
42	Pentagon	Construction finished	536
43	iPod launch	Project greenlit	49	2001	https://patrickcollison.com/fast assuming 25 January as starting date
44	iPod launch	Contract manufacturer hired	80
45	iPod launch	Product announced	271
46	iPod launch	First product shipped	290
47	SpaceX Starlink	SpaceX files FCC application for Starlink	669	2015	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
48	SpaceX Starlink	Test satellites deployed	1133
49	SpaceX Starlink	Satellite mass production begins	1543
50	SpaceX Starlink	First launch of Starlink satellites	1589
51	SpaceX Starlink	Elon Musk tweets via Starlink	1739
52	SpaceX Starlink	SpaceX has launched 895 satellites so far	2108
53	SpaceX Starlink	SpaceX launches public beta	2110
54	Boeing 747	First 747 completed	930	1966	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
55	Boeing 747	First test flight	1295	1969
56	Boeing 747	747 enters commercial service	1409	1970
57	Moderna COVID vaccine	Moderna has the sequence for their mRNA vaccine	3		https://patrickcollison.com/fast From genome publication
58	Moderna COVID vaccine	First batch manufactured	28
59	Moderna COVID vaccine	First batch shipped for clinical trial	45
60	Moderna COVID vaccine	Vaccine announced as 95% effective	306
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