Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100415:17:11:00
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 ...
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