Did NASA Force Cancellation of Space Tourism Expo?
Originally set for Labor Day weekend, the Space Tourism Expo was postponed until late 2002 due to “the unexpectedly adverse economic climate (making) it impossible to acquire the financing necessary to produce a show of the quality our exhibitors and sponsors deserved,” said event coordinator John Spencer in an email dated 4 August. Now a new report by NSS Ad Astra Magazine Editor Frank Seitzen calls into question the role of NASA and Dan Goldin in forcing the exhibit to cancel. According to event organizer Larry Evans, all four of the NASA centers that had originally agreed to participate at the Space Tourism Expo (Johnson, Marshall, Ames and Dryden) reneged after initially enthusiastically agreeing to participate. “The string of seemingly related events on the part of NASA might just be a coincidence. However, some would prefer to say that NASA’s agencywide reverse manuever vis-a-vis the Space Tourism Expo was additional proof of the hostile, anti- space tourism attitude of Dan Goldi
