[SunkenCiv]

Over the next 40 years? Approx chrono order:

1. Private company launching civilians into space, suborbital flights
2. Private company launching civilians into space, orbital flights
3. Back to the Moon -- may even be private companies sending civilians to weeklong vacations in orbit around the Moon
4. New, all-US orbital station
5. Permanent human colonies on the Moon
6. Probes to assay asteroids (including landings)
7. Human missions to asteroids
8. Human missions to and from Mars orbit
9. Orbital station to Mars
10. Cycler construction (Buzz Aldrin, hope he lives to see it)
11. Human missions to the Martian surface
12. Habitats on Martian surface
13. Permanent human presence on Mars
14. Human mission(s) to the "dark side" (but close to the daylight side) of Mercury

[Red Badger]

‘Private company retrieving civilians from space’: Should be in there somewhere.................B^)