Because private industry is expected to pick up the slack.
Yeah, Right... I'll believe it when I see it...
Talk is cheap. OL JR
PS. I thought NASA should have been working on HLV all along and skip the Ares I crap; put the Orion on Delta IVH or Atlas V H and go straight to heavy lift. Now we're 5 years along and 9 billion dollars wasted, and right back where we started, and HLV is going to be a VERY tough sell...
SpaceX and the other 'newspace' stuff... well, let's hope they're as good as they think they are... but like I said, talk is cheap, and I'll believe it when I see it. Til then it's JUST talk...
At least Delta IV and Atlas V REALLY EXIST AND FLY...
It's a mess... :confused2: