Since we are celebrating and reminiscing the 40th Anniversary of the First Man on the Moon, it might be worth taking a peak at conceptualized animations of NASA's conceived future, entitled the Constellation Program.
If it proceeds as planned, astronauts will be heading to the moon sometime after 2020, with Mars to follow, post 2030. Here then is a video, detailing how manned missions to the nearby disks can be visited with NASA's new spacecraft: Ares and Orion.
Here is a finely indexed plan for the future of America's program in space we are reminded that manned missions will be taking a smaller footprint in the overall scheme of future space operations.
