After 50 years of NASA, Can't get our own astronauts to our ISS without Russians

.To me it’s abysmal that it has come to this: after 50 years of NASA, and after putting about $100 billion into the space station, we can’t get our own astronauts to our space station without relying on the Russians. Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we’re going to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century..
Buzz Aldrin – Telegraph, June 29, 2008.

Editor note--shuttle cost approximately 200 billion.