i'm in front of spacex, a private rocket company that nasa is doing business with but says its hands are tied because congress is forcing it to pay bills for the canceled programs. if you look at the rocket launch from 2009 that, was part of the $12 billion constellation program that president obama canceled. but congress in the 2010 budget told nasa it had to keep paying all the contracts in that thing until there is a new budget in 2011 which we still don't have. nasa says by the end of march, it will have wasted $215 million on contracts for stuff it doesn't want and if there's no budget by the end of september, that number will rise to more than $575 million wasted dollars. >> jane, there's no way for nasa to get out of this? isn't there a play or pay clause? >> reporter: a contract is a contract. the only way to change it is to