It seems an announcement on a new vision for space exploration will be coming out of the White House within the next two months; the question is, what will it be. In a lengthy commentary published December 1st, space author and analyst Frank Sietzen Jr. claims inside information that the plan will advocate for renewed U.S. space dominance: activities leading to leadership of space exploration “in the Earth-Moon system” to include manned lunar landings by 2019, new robotic lunar probes, and development of a “flexible” manned spacecraft that is likely to be a form of the proposed Orbital Space Plane. Creation of a manned lunar base would evolve from more limited landings, if at all. Meanwhile the Orlando Sentinal, from what it knows of the plan, sees a “bold agenda for space exploration” which is long on rhetoric, but short on new goals and money. Are they talking about the same thing?