“NASA will forego human-crewed, outer space operations after 2025. ”

With the up and coming privatization of the space industry, NASA is quickly falling behind the curve on producing a viable human spaceflight program. NASA's future will slowly turn into a regulatory operation, assuming present FAA-like structure to regulate the private space industry as companies such as SpaceX, Virgin, United Alliance, etc, begin to make headway for manned space operations instead.