The UK has Richard Branson and his plans for commercial spaceflights. In the Netherlands 36 year old Bas Lansdorp goes a little further. The founder and owner of the in Amersfoort located space enterprise Mars One (4 employees) wants to establish a colony on Mars by 2023 and deliver the first...
Looks like there's the teeniest weeniest smallest little sliver of slight hopeful possibility that maybe there might have been life on Mars. Or not:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34207864/ns/technology_and_science-space/