This is fairly typical. Republican governments tend not to provide a lot of money to the space program. Nixon, Reagan and now Wild Bill. All those administrations had more money devoted to weapons of war and being in wars than anything else. I think if they put half of what they put into war into space and the other half into their health budget and then stayed the hell away from everybody else then the world would be a much better place, and space would be the better for it. Using an antiquated system with updated electronics just cries budget cuts. What about developing another propulsion and re-entry system. That would be better!!
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