Shutting down the U.S.A

"Next year's NASA budget is poised to force premature cancellation of
either Curiosity or Cassini -- the agency's flagship missions. Funding
decisions get made behind closed doors, but projected figures reduce
Cassini's budget in 2014 by almost half, and half again in 2015, making
it impossible to fly. Even funding for analyzing data will be
"restructured," according to NASA."

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/14/op...ion/index.html