Space tourists should wait until station is complete, officials say

Now that Dennis Tito, the first "space tourist," is back on the ground, some NASA and industry officials are still saying he shouldn't have gone to the International Space Station Alpha - at least not yet. There is a place for space tourism in manned space flight, but not while the station is still...

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