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In the next century? Sure, that is a long time, funding is really the biggest obstacle over science here, other countries need to keep chipping in and also add more. Obviously these are difficult times right now, but the longer term sustainability of mankind, assuming we don't destroy ourselves...

Yeah it could, although the plans also go beyond that, into higher orbit. I think I'll give it a miss for 25 or so years though :D

That's right, we should see a big commercial movement soon in terms of spaceflight. In terms of manned programs there will be little movement until 2030, we can just sit back and see what the probes and telescopes bring back, like the James Webb Space Telescope (successor to Hubble), and...

Yes, it is amazing. Space exploration is going through something of a stagnant period right now, but we should still see many observational phenomena over the next decade or so.