saturn_656 saturn_656:
I'm not saying that Gingrich will follow through like Kennedy, but it'd be nice for the US and allies in space to have a grand plan to further our presence in the solar system.
Humanity's future does lay somehere out there. it's in our genes to explore and desire new horizons. However, I believe that future is not our immediate future but something that is distant centuries ahead. Oceanic colonization in our near future, orbital installations in the next century or so and then the beginnings of lunar colonization by carving habitats within the moon, and then Mars and carving habitats in the asteroids within the next five centuries. Slow and steady wins the race and minimizes casualty rates through misadventure.