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$50 million a pop. jane: that would be surprising, i think, to a lot of people, we re now paying for seats on russian spacecraft. yeah. this is the beginning of the outsourcing of the american space program. the hope is what s coming next is building a new private american space industry that will take the place. jane: so you re talking about commercial rockets taking the place of government-funded? absolutely. that s the hope, but we re not there yet right now. i mean, we re in a weird kind of transition because it s sort of a strange planning gap, you know? nasa planned to shut down the space shuttle before they had the next thing ready, and then the obama administration just shut down what was going to replace it, the so-called constellation program. jane: right. we re expecting to hear on the 15th of april about the president s vision for the country, what do you expect to hear? well, a lot of the details have leaked out. the concept is, basically, the obama administration s

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