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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, ....
Tom jones, former nasa astronaut, fox news contributor and author of sky walking , an astronaut s memoir. thank you for joining us. hi patty. patti ann: as we showed you president obama was once a supporter of a nasa mission, but his new budget would cancel this joint u.s.-european robotic mars mission both in 2016 and 2018. scientists are described as stunned and depressed. what s your reaction? oh, i think it s exactly the wrong tack to be taking. nasa has been the leader in mars we re the only country that s sent spacecraft to mars and here we re pulling out of exploration and returning samples back here, both to learn about the science of mars and also to prepare the way for the human explorers that the president mentioned patti ann: and in 2018, mars makes its closest pass to earth, in a 15-year cycle, and scientists don t want to ....