But in fact, the Commercial Crew vehicle approach that you are taking was not cut. It was plussed up from last year's spending levels.
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Hutchison points out that funding for Commercial Crew increased while Orion and SLS were cut.
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Well, we have certainly tried to lower the number of commercial operators that are going to get the Federal seed money just because I think we agreed that that was just more than we could take away from SLS and Orion.
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