New manned missions to Moon, Mars --- what do you think?

[space toker]

I've got a huge boner on for this too. I would really like to look up at the moon at some point in my life and say, there's life on that celestial object up there millions of miles away.

The moon is like 230,000 miles away dumbass!
kidding
Point is well taken though, I too would like to look up and see the Moon, Mars, even other stars and say there's people living there. Hell I wish I could be there and look at a star in the sky and say "that's where I came from". But barring some huge radical breakthrough really fast, that is not going to happen in my lifetime. But maybe someone born in the next 20 or 30 years could see it.
Mars varies, at it's closest it's like 35 million miles, next door in cosmic terms.