the space program isn't about doing things cheaply- it's about keeping thousands of the best and brightest people gainfully employed working on cutting edge technologies for "us" instead of taking their knowledge and abilities to some other "them".
anyone who thinks this is all about doing it cheaper and easier by using off the shelf proven tech misses the point- NASA is all about funding the r&d research that is to risky and expensive for private companies to do it on their own.
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