Private Commercial Space travel

I feel that private commercial space travel is a bad idea. It is greatly regretted that NASA has ceased operations due to financial difficulties. In fact, it should be replaced with a similar company instead of being replaced with private commercial space travel. It would bring about a stop in discovery and it will also be sort of pointless.

If NASA is replaced with companies which bring people up to space as long as they have enough money for a ticket, this means that there will not be a company who will continue where NASA left off. Research on other planets, examination of satellites, recordings of sounds in space, they all will no longer occur. When NASA was still in operation, there would still be possibilities of discovering other planets like Earth, and traces of life on other planets. But since there isn't a company who will take over the research, all the possibilities of the future are all gone. Thus private commercial space travel is not a good idea.

Furthermore, all that private commercial space travel does is mostly bringing people up into space, it is just a ride. That's all. What is the point of it? It is just that people now know how space is really like. The NASA company has a purpose in space--- To discover. With discovery, new things would be uncovered. History would be made. But private commercial space travel is just a boring cycle. The companies just bring people up to space, and they earn money. Only the company is gaining benefits. But for companies which do research, they earn money, and at the same time, the people of the globe get to learn new things. Thus private commercial space travel is merely a selfish idea which brings benefits to a little group of people, and there is not really a good purpose in this entire idea.

I myself think that there are better ways to replace the NASA company. Seriously, is tourism the only resort? Space is a place which not everyone has the chance to gain access to, thus access to it must be cherished. There is an objective in education of space-- people get to learn. My point is that when there is access to space, there must be an objective. An objective which will bring about progress. And progress is what keeps this world going. What is your stand?