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of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. >> we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. >> absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment of space we cannot replicate here on earth. we are going to still explore and research there but we ...

Companies to provide taxi services and have nasa focus more on moving from the moon to deep space exploration. one of the big issues on the table for nasa's budget is this push, to privatize the way astronauts get into space. this is why. the huge cost of sending astronauts up. right now the cost for one astronaut and one mission from nasa is about $65 million. if we use the russian soyuz program, $50 million per astronaut. according to one private spaceflight company, it can be done for $20 million per astronaut. one analogy we heard yesterday was why not -- it's like the government needs to ...

Per astronaut per mission, $165 million. russia charges $50 million per astronaut and according to the president of spacex which is a private space flight company, he said he can do it for $20 million per astronaut. tracy dyson spoke from space, they had a press conference, in support of using the russian soyuz space vehicle to get back and forth. listen -- >> we have quite a bit of confidence in the soyuz that brought us here, and there is enough room in each soyuz to bring us home in case of emergency. so, i think the one thing that we'll miss the most about the shuttle is, of course, the ma...