2025. Possibly sooner if Shawyer’s Em Drive works as adverized...
But no moon. I’ve noted before that my dad averred that he had insisted in the 1930’s that men would go to the moon in his lifetime. And that they did, just some 35 years later. Now it’s coming on twice that time since, without any increment whatsoever in manned exploration of space, starting with a return to the moon, which is an obvious base camp for further missions.
Now everybody’s marveling at the landing of the Space-X booster on that barge. Ok, cool. But it ain’t the moon, or anything beyond that. We’re left with LEO and everybody is talking smack. Well, I’m calling BS on that.
... and “Shawyer’s Em Drive” ? that’s pure fantasy. That’s where we are now, fantasy as reality.
My honest opinion is that Apollo will fade into myth, even as more and more fantastical ideas become current, of course with no hope of fruition.