Wonder when the TSA will demand government-employee screeners be present before this thing can take off again...
NASA won't stand for it. They'll try to get Uncle Statism to put the kibosh on private spaceflight.
I agree in principle. It's not NASA per se, but someone or someones, probably several interest groups, are resisting space development. Somebody will get to a Senator and the Senator will get to a bureaucrat and the bureaucrat will dig through the statutes and some regulation will be found. They may be letting this one fly for two reasons: first, it isn't really going anywhere, and second, it might end in disaster and they wouldhn't have to worry about space development again for several years.