i suppose if the will is there at government level it will happen...multinational venture between all the space nations id say is the only way probably
Think of it this way (taken from Wikipedia):
From 1964 until 1973, a total of US$6.5 billion was appropriated for the Saturn V, with the maximum being in 1966 with US$1.2 billion.
One of the main reasons for the cancellation of the Apollo program was the cost. In 1966, NASA received its highest budget of US$4.5 billion, about 0.5% of the GDP of the United States at that time. In the same year, the Department of Defense received $63.5 billion, about 7.0% of GDP.
In America, the military always supercedes everything else in the budget, but when you see the comparison above that NASA gets... wow. Yet, in the very beginning, NASA was born out of the military. Funny how things progressed since.
Seanie.
  