To be fair, we reverted to capsules because the Shuttle was so expensive that there was no additional will to spend the necessary amount (when accounting for de

To be fair, we reverted to capsules because the Shuttle was so expensive that there was no additional will to spend the necessary amount (when accounting for defense contractor bloat) on an effective successor that wasn't a flying death trap. Even those capsules (especially the one actually flying people right now) only barely got the funding they needed.