This is some good news on the space front:
NASA is planning to launch robotic missions to make water on the Moon in 2018 and oxygen on Mars in 2020.
The Moon mission will be the US space agency's first attempt to demonstrate in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) beyond Earth.
The purpose of ISRU, or "living off the land" is to harness and utilise space resources to create products and services which enable and significantly reduce the mass, cost, and risk of near-term and long-term space exploration.