Cancelling NASA's Constellation program in 2010 wasted $9 billion over five years, creating a 9-year gap in U.S. crewed spaceflight capability. That forced NASA to pay Russia $80 million per seat for Soyuz rides to the ISS, making it 30% more expensive per astronaut than the original Constellation crew vehicle would have been. This decision, worse than the UK austerity cuts to research councils at #6, compounded its failure by bleeding domestic expertise.
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