The White House has bleaker plans for WFIRST, which the U.S. space science community ranked as the highest priority for NASA's astrophysics program in the 2010 Decadal Survey. (scientificamerican.com)
It drew the ire of the Trump administration, which proposed canceling it entirely in the White House's FY 2019 budget; Congress and the space science community have so far stood firm against that proposal. (scientificamerican.com)
Weiler's resignation in September caught the space science community by surprise. (sciencemag.org)