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But they did not kill the soyuz. so for $71 million per seat, the russians agree to fly american astronauts, as well as cargo, back and forth to the international space station. $71 million a seat. russia is the only country in the world that maintains that capacity right now to transport stuff in and out of space. and we pay russia to use that capacity which only they have. except maybe now not for long. what happened today in florida is something else that ronald reagan talked about in that state of the union address in 1984 where he announced that he wanted to build this international space...

Belt and continue to run these successful supply missions up to the space station. jon: well, eventually this thing is supposed to fly our astronauts, right? >> right. and the fact that they withstood an engine failure is a good thing. you've got to have the ability to continue on with a mission. on the other hand, rocket science is hard, and this is only the fourth launch of the falcon 9, spaceand should use this as a learning opportunity to strengthen the design of their vehicle. jon: well, it's actually a picture-perfect launch except for that, except for that explosion. you think that they...

With the russians right now, how do you think the international community will embrace space travel going forward? >> depends on the country, we have partners in europe, japanese partner, canadians, and russians all partners with the international space station, i think the big programs, if we're going to go on one day and go back to the moon or mars with humans, we'll do that probably as an international effort. we're the leading partner with the space station program. we've had the space station up in orbit for over 10 years now and will continue to operate through 2020, so we do have a stro...

Parts. military and scientific. this is also true within the manned space station program. while one, four, and six are all involved in scientific research with some military applications, two, three, and five are clearly part of the military program. >> the military program. see, the spooky music makes it all so much more believable! the cia also put in movie form for president reagan what was going on in afghanistan in the 1980s. you can roll that one. this is great. >> moscow faces some formidable tasks in its efforts to prop up the unpopular marxist regime in kabul. even the soviets can se...

Through a few years later, and then ultimately when o'keefe became nasa administrator in 2001, it was at the same time period that ted stevens was, in fact, the chairman of a very powerful committee that basically controlled a lot of the purse strings at the space agency. and stevens was a big supporter of the space agency. so as one person that told me a little bit ago -- he said bottom line was, if stevens had the money that o'keefe needed at the space station. now, sean o'keefe was also brought in to nasa at a very, very difficult time in the space station program, $5 billion over budget. a...