[quote=@FacePunch]
In regards to space, a colony on the moon isn't too far fetched. A private company is planning on launching a manned mission to Mars in 2020, and are going to establish a small permanent settlement there.

It was all over he news last year.
[/quote]It isn't farfetched, indeed.
But if the GM wants the space colony craze to be taking place during the RP that's an understandable idea, too.
Maybe the wartime recovery cost so much for the nations that they can only begin colonizing the Moon and Mars just now.