miss that window, saying they are apparently scrambling to find a cheaper way to get it done. but they can't go over $700 million, and they couldn't land maybe just orbit the planet. is that worth it? >> patti ann, the scientific community wanted this mars satchel return to be the next big step and if that could not be funded and of course the nasa budget is declining so they're not getting those funds, they opted to recommend missions to other places like one of jupiter's men's, uropo, whether it could be a subsurface ocean that might harbor life, so this backstep or backfilling of the mars mission may be just to satisfy the scientific community that something is still possible at mars but it won't be the next logical step in mars' exphorration. so whether or not they can find the funds in this declining budget is a big open question. patti ann: and the president's budget proposal is not the exact budget that ends up being enacted, so a lot of drama still to go on that. but as you say, this also cancels the mars flight to