NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dismissed rumors that the future of U.S. space exploration is in jeopardy and rejected speculation that his agency has no plans for future human spaceflight... "The truth is we have an ambitious series of deep space destinations we plan to explore and we are hard at work exploring the hardware and the technologies to get us there." ... "The prospect for the future is good unless your a pessimist and you believe that the people we hire, that we elect to run the government won't rise to the occasion and run the government. But I'm an eternal optimist." ...saying that he "loves" and "admires" President Barack Obama ....He also expressed support for private flights and privately owned space stations for tourist purposes. "Commercial space is not a national priority, it is an imperative," he said. "NASA can't go to the exploration that we want to do if we don't have a viable, sustainable commercial space program with US capability to get humans into orbit."
"Commercial" space is not ready for prime time.