Americas return to space ?

I was glad to see that NASA has scheduled a May 2005 launch window for a shutle mission. STS-114 Return to Flight missions.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/missions/schedule.html

I still remember fondly watching the Apollo missions as a young child. I had a telescope, I built the scale models, got into launching model rockets and I loved reading science fiction stories about space travel & colinization. I honestly thought by now America would have established a permanent lunar colony and would have a space station in in place at one of the Lagrange points.

http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/lagrange.html

Maybe the next couple of decades will see my childhood visions come true.