'NASA at a crossroads:' Budget woes, aging infrastructure and hard choices ahead

The curve of the earth from space buldges from below, as an enlarged shadowed moon rises behind it. Behind the moon, a much large red planet, mars.

The next few years are likely to be pivotal ones for NASA, according to a hard-hitting report by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

The report, which was released last month, is called "NASA at a Crossroads: Maintaining Workforce, Infrastructure and Technology Preeminence in the Coming Decades." And that title was chosen advisedly.