Re: Next 10 years (or by the end of this decade... has a nice ring to it).
NASA’s Mission:
To understand and protect our home planet,
To explore the universe and search for life,
To inspire the next generation of explorers…
As only NASA can.
http://spacescience.nasa.gov/admin/pubs/strategy/2000/index.html
In between getting a hold of a few Martian core samples, these would be nice: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/whatsnew/pr/020711A.html
Nice recap from JPL.
Marcia