Exactly, which balloons the cost even more.

I can't see there will be a full scrap of this program. It's way too far along. If anything, it'd turn into something else, but I never see that happening. There are pieces of the Gateway already being made out in Colorado. Orion is ready to fly. Too many jobs - both within the US and internationally - are involved in so many pieces of this program. It's way beyond anything Apollo ever was as far as the sheer amount of contractors involved.

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