At least this is encouraging to hear - FINALLY - http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8735
QUOTE - Letting the human spaceflight programme "atrophy" after Apollo damaged the agency for three decades, he said.
It sucks that the science part will temporarily suffer. But any increases to the OVERALL budget will come from a human presence in space, not from pretty pictures of Pluto.
maybe this instead?
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8735
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8735
"I'd be willing to support that as long as any additional money went to the unmanned side of the programme, and as long as the money didn't come from other science agencies," said Boehlert. "But money is not exactly growing on trees around here."