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Hundreds of miles. and so, you don't have to have quite as much of the u.s. navy covering the pacific. you could target it more accurately and avoid the weather as they had to do on this mission that they were already plunging back to earth when they decided to shift the landing spot from off san diego to south of baja. >> i asked bill nelson this question last week about whether the success of this mission at all moves up the timeline, which has already been delayed a number of times for manned mission to orbit mars and to land on mars. do you see any possibility of that? >> i think that is s...

is zero room for error. about 17 minutes from now, if all goes as planned, the rover will touchdown on the martian surface. but it takes 14 minutes for a signal to travel from mars to earth, so best case scenario, confirmation will come in about 31 minutes. we expect pictures around 2 a.m. eastern. now, joining us from the laboratory in california. in moscow r where russian space officials are closely following the development and science correspondent david brodie joins us from edge water, new jersey. but first we will go to john zarrella there live in pasadena. john, we are about t...

"america live." there are major developments this afternoon in the battle of forcing religious institutions to offer contraception coverage to employees. the president now says that will not be the case. so does the fight end here, or is it just heating up? plus, a new effort to help americans who lost their homes or oh more than their homes are worth. could this end up hurting our fragile economy? and men may be from mars, but they won't be going there any time soon. details on a plan to cut nasa funding. plus we'll ask a former astronaut about the future of u.s. space exploration. >> by the ...

Fighting uphill battle trying to save the trips to mars. now he says to me it is totally irrational and unjustified. we're the only country on this planet that has the demonstrated ability to land on another planet, namely mars. it is a national prestige issue. wiler says he is frustrated because he thinks these mars trips jell nicely with the president's policy of increasing foreign collaboration. martha? martha: looks like nasa may not be the lead at least on sending men to mars in this scenario, peter. >> reporter: right. it is not clear necessarily how this will affect the united states ab...

Can send humans to orbit mars and return safely to earth. landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around to see it. [ applause ] >> in the short term american astronaut wills rely on spacecraft from private corporations and russia. >> apollo xi astronaut buzz aldrin supports the new plan. he rode on air force 1 to cape canaveral but was apparently not impressed by a plan that couldn't make it into orbit. our top political story, also from the president. he made a stop in miami speaking at a democratic national committee fundraiser. no surprise, he had taxes and tea partiers on his min...