On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 22:56:56 +0100, Dr J R Stockton
wrote:

Yeah, right. Big talk about a country that's launched three manned
flights in the time it took the US to complete Projects Mercury and
Gemini and by the time the fourth flies, we can add most of Apollo up
to 11.

NASA has two or three manned flights planned for the next twelve months,
on vehicles developed by their parents' generation. After that, how
long will it be before they do their next three?

Three to four years is my guess, one way or the other. Less than
between Apollo and Shuttle.

Ignoring SpaceShipTwo, of course.

Brian