We are paying a heavy price for the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. And the reason that we are paying hundreds of millions of dollars--and it will be in the billions before we are finished--is because we were not able to fund adequately to close the gap for a commercial crew vehicle following on to the shuttle retirement.
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