US manned spaceflight is still quite active and hopefully by next year NASA will experience some financial relief utilizing the Dragon 2. This past Wednesday NASA spent roughly 140 million dollars to launch two US astronauts aboard a Soyuz rocket to the ISS, successfully docking only a few hours ago. NASA could be getting a whole lot more value for the price of a couple Falcon 9 launches.
Interesting, although not surprising, it's full speed ahead into the SLS/Orion money pit. Costing taxpayers 2 billion a year since 2011, we might see the first test flight two years from now. No worries, if you can't fly might as well grab for the 350 million that was just approved to build a second SLS mobile launch platform.