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Given the extreme economic/financial stress the USA is under at the moment, I think we'll be lucky to see even a minimal space program in the coming decade. When voters are worried about putting food on the table the last thing they care about is walking on the moon.
A combination of low taxes and high expenditure has ruined State and Federal budgets, conspiracy between politicians and big bankers is funnelling much needed taxes into a black hole (to prop up insolvent companies and pay bonuses to banksters), and squabbling between Republicans and Democrats is preventing effective remedies from being implemented. The health and education systems are in shambles compared to ours and people are losing their jobs and houses.
Meanwhile the authorities use dodgy accounting to pretend things are improving, with a favoured tactic being to compare new raw figures to the previous months adjusted figure.
I can't see how there will be any US public funding of human space exploration for the forseeable future.
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