The Moon landing could be realised in under a decade due to a?
Yes. The USA has considered and dismissed multiple Mars landing plans in the past. They were dismissed because of cost, not technology gaps. When Trump was running in 2016, he asked the director of NASA if he could do a Mars landing within four years, assuming he had all the money he needed. The NASA director said no. However, things have progressed a lot since then, and 10 years is longer than 4 years. One of the big developments that has come since 2016 is the real growth of SpaceX. Just yeste...