Looking back at the first post in this thread, Art Field pointed out that the FSTA Invitation To Negotiate (ITN) was issued in December 2000. That started me thinking; work on the FSTA project must have started some time before that. Sure enough, I found that consortia were invited to submit
outline proposals for FSTA in November 1999.
So we're now about
8 years, one month and a few days into the FSTA project.
Here are a couple of other interesting facts:
President Kennedy made his famous "
Let's Go To The Moon" speech to Congress on 25 May 1961.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on 20 July 1969.
I calculate that it took NASA
8 years, one month and 25 days to achieve their goal.
I wonder how much longer we'll have to wait for FSTA?