Originally Posted by
Grand58742
It's to my understanding the eventual goal of the COTS program is to turn over all manned LEO missions including the ISS rotations to private companies and NASA would "contract" seats on them like they did with the Soyuz. Basically, Boeing and SpaceX (maybe Sierra Nevada eventually) would take over the "expensive Uber" role while NASA concentrated on the Artemis Program, SLS and eventual Mars missions.
I'll keep the thoughts on the SLS and the disaster it's turning out to be to myself.