The budget cuts will affect America 's most experienced and most promising engineers and researchers . NASA budget may force premature cancellation of either Curiosity or Cassini . Virgin Galactic : The cuts not only hurt scientists , but also our leadership in STEM . Vertesi : Do we really want to put someone like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's famous `` Mohawk Guy out of a job ? She says if we end the Cassini or the America mission , it would be a national crisis .
NASA budget may force premature cancellation of either Curiosity or Cassini . Virgin Galactic : The cuts not only hurt scientists , but also our leadership in STEM . Vertesi : Do we really want to put someone like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's famous `` Mohawk Guy out of a job ? She says if we end the Cassini or the America mission , it would be a national crisis .