[RightWhale]

Here's reality: We are at war. All thought of of a manned space program ended for this generation on WTC911. Nothing is going to happen in space development until we finish the war. Whether it is 4 or 20 or more years away, the war's end is when we can take a look around and decide to go to Mars, the moon, mine asteroids, and get out of the hellhole of earth.

[Brett66]

I don't think NASA will be doing anything substantive in space for at least 15 years. However the X-Prize contenders will be flying in 3 years or less. Transorbital will launch their Lunar sattelite next year. It's a very exciting time, as long as NASA isn't considered part of the development of space.