Well, for that they'd have needed more money.
So you see, this can all be traced back to an egregious budgeting failure by President Bush (and somehow, incredibly but not atypically, one Mr. Karl Rove). : )
WHY WASN'T THERE A TRANSPORTER ROOM ON THAT SHUTTLE?
Apparently they wanted borrow the transporter unit from the set of Galaxy Quest but it kept turning the test subjects inside out.