Looks like there's a good chance the Webb telescope will be scratched:
http://www.futura-sciences.com/fr/news/t/astronautique/d/le-futur-telescope-spatial-james-webb-pourrait-etre-abandonne_31339/#xtor=RSS-19
Headline: "The future James Webb space telescope could be abandoned".
The rest of the story enlarges on that theme.
Balancing the budget's gotten to be an impossible labor, it seems, and
the cuts being proposed by both sides of the aisle are eyeball-bending,
and, well, it looks like Nasa may take it on the neck yet again.
And 20 years from now, we'll no doubt find people debating the
question: If we can't afford to launch a fancy space telescope today,
how can we believe it was possible to orbit such a thing as the Hubble,
decades ago? That just doesn't make sense. Surely, those images all
must have been made in Photoshop....
