So then, you ARE actually so stupid as to think that NASA would spend
$1.16 BILLION dollars and then not be able to find an additional $57
million or so per engine to actually buy some.

Nasa stands for Nearly Always Stupid-Acting. No stupidity is beyond them. After you've been around awhile you;ll come to realize they have a secret mandate to keep ppl OUT of space, which is actually the domain of the Air Force, for whom nasa works.
that's why they always cancel good cheap effective projects and push the goofy ones that waste our space access dollars on military industrial profits.
Grow up. this aint ding dong school. Believe ur eyes, not the propaganda. ;=]