re: Hum...MSL 2009?...pushed to 2011...oh wait...now 2013...next cancellation?
It's has a moving target launch date and will cost billions with manned missions to happen 25 years from now (if ever)...not a red hot burning need for MSL...
The current focus is STS return to flight then CEV then CLV then HLV all going to be over budget all sucking money from space sciences at NASA.