Dr. O wrote:

Basically, NASA does not want human spacelfight to become economically
viable since by doing this, it will have shot itself in the head.


It is quite possible that people at NASA thinks that way. But human
space flight
becoming economically viable shouldn't kill NASA (specially in the
unlikely case
where it would of been NASA that would of made it become so). The first A in
NASA is still there and air flight has been economically viable for some
time.

Alain Fournier