WFIRST
WFIRST was the No. 1 rated large-scale mission in the 2010 decadal survey for astrophysics.

Aside from the gaping hole in capabilities that WFIRST was uniquely designed to fill in the 2020s, NASA’s projected out-year budget delivers a knock-out punch to future U.S. leadership in space astrophysics

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Brian Berger is editor in chief of SpaceNews.com and the SpaceNews magazine. He joined SpaceNews.com in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until being named...