I have a feeling...
We won't be seeing manned Mars missions any time soon, at least through NASA.
And the real sad part is, most citizens won't care and many will actually applaud
the idea as a misguided attempt to save money "to solve our problems on Earth
first" - oy.
Don't worry, we'll have Virtual Mars software games up and running soon, so the
kids will think they're on the real planet and they won't have to go anywhere and
they won't know the difference.