Thanks for jogging my memory
Your story Mr Nelson reminded me of a story I read May last year at CNN:
Space tourist cheapening Alpha
This is the opinion of John Glenn - I wonder how widely this elitist and depressing view is shared in the upper ranks of NASA? Note in particular the quote: "The time will come when we permit more people in space. I don't think that time is here yet." Don't you just love that? "Permit". "We."
Then there's this more optimistic (although I don't know how realistic) piece about Buzz Aldrin's view of NASA involvement in space tourism which appeared a month later:
Space tourism solution for NASA budget woes?
(Fingers crossed the HTML works.)