Many are touting commercial as the answer after the Augustine committee, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama to reassess the nation’s human spaceflight program, strongly advocated a multitude of commercial options as a path forward. Even when the root problem was identified as a lack of funding for NASA, commercial options were still presented that require at least $5 billion from NASA’s budget to develop and provide less capability and safety than Ares 1 and Orion.