This Phoenix better not have to rise from any ashes

As the launch date for the mars scout Phoenix is drawing nearer, the scientists at Lockheed Martin in Colorado are starting to get scared. After building the Mars Polar Lander which crashed in 1999, the engineers are trying really hard to find any flaws in this one. If this one fails too, their funding would also likely fail, especially when they're already over $30m over budget. They don't think there are any problems, but they didn't think there were with the other one either, so they're scurrying about to find any last problems before its shipping date in May. It's scheduled to launch in August.