In this Nature article (subscription required), the NASA 5-year budget outlook notes that the Joint Dark Energy Mission -- to characterize dark energy in the universe, didn't show up in the budget, when it should have. It looks like it's "timeline has been stretched out", in response to the reordering of priorities to fund the moon/mars mission of Bus. Rocky Kolb says: "The immediate problem is that no one knows how to use dark energy to get to Mars."
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