“[WFIRST] 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” 🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Though costly, I think it is incredibly important to continue doing our best to study the cosmos. To not study it would be to know every detail of the house you live in, but know nothing of what lies beyond it’s walls - the vast volume of information to be discovered is invaluable to us and to our futures.