Re: $100 million - really?
Oh, and "it's rocket science" doesn't wash,
It's rocket engineering that's changing the docking mechanism for multiple spacecraft. This means Soyuz, Dragon, and any ISS other visitors needed to modify their designs and hardware. After you get done proposing such design changes, testing and verification follow to make sure your modified spacecraft work, and then another round of modifications may be necessary if testing wasn't perfect. Russians being Russians, I'm sure they were happy to bill NASA for testing and Soyuz modification expenses.
In addition to the new docking mechanism blowed up by SpaceX, there would've been engineering prototypes to break on test rigs, and copies to send to partner nations for testing.
Point being: that one docking connector in this article's photo wasn't $100 million. Final manufacturing costs were probably under a few million. Everything else on the "Universal Docking Connector Program" (or whatever it was called) cost $100 million.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
