“I think a maned mission to Mars will happen first.”
Unlikely considering we no longer use space shuttles and there is no alternative on the horizon. But at least Obama is promising lots of shovel ready jobs!
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity….. anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works