I would say that the moon plan has been dead for quite a few years now. Bush talked it up a bit, but it was like his talk about the hydrogen economy. It's a good idea that he would have no involvement in. NASA has been kind of directionless since getting to the moon. At the time, we were in a technological race that we really needed to win. Now...what are the compelling objectives? The only one that I see is that a permanent moon base would allow for research and development of tools and manufacturing that is currently impossible. Economically, that could be a compelling argument, but only from a theoretical standpoint, and we don't do theoretical on that scale very often. For that reason, I have long felt that any attempt at the moon or mars is nothing more than a dream that will not get funded.