0 the act of sending a spacecraft to the moon:
This is technology that can be used in another moonshot or a Mars mission.
1 a plan or aim to do something that seems almost impossible:
2 used to refer to a plan or aim to do something that seems almost impossible, or relating to such plans or aims:
He published s an expense report requesting $33.31 for expenses incurred during Aldrin's moonshot.
In the 1960s, following the moonshot, it was predicted that within a few years dinner would come in the form of three pills.
In those days, transatlantic crossings were like moonshots.
He knows the vaccine is a moonshot, but he figures anything less would amount to surrender.
If ever there was a global moonshot worth supporting, this is it.
We're taking a moonshot that we'll want to be interacting with computers in deeply emotional ways.
In one moonshot, all systems told the men to abort.
Players in an alliance will often give each other moonshots by attacking a certain amount of ships purposefully left behind.