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billion Constellation Program, which had already received $10 billion. Instead, he has directed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to immediately begin developing a rescue vehicle using technology from the expensive Orion crew capsule "so we are not forced to rely on foreign providers if it becomes necessary to quickly bring our people home from the International Space Station."Over the next five years, NASA will receive an additional $6 billion for this project. Among the contractors chosen is Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), a space-transportation start-up company founded by Elon Musk, a South African-American physicist and entrepreneur.
SpaceX"s unmanned Falcon 9 launch vehicle is scheduled for lift-off at Cape Canaveral this May. Musk is promising NASA that he will charge no more than $20 million per astronaut. Washington claims that a seat in Russia"s Soyuz spacecraft costs $56 million.
Under the Constellation Program, which involved
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