NASA Is Launching a Probe to a Star
They decided to go with the closest one.
For one NASA mission, flying too close to the sun isn’t a concern. It’s the whole point.
On Wednesday, the space agency announced some details about its planned mission to send a robotic spacecraft into the sun’s upper atmosphere, a first for humanity. NASA said it would rename the Solar Probe Plus mission after Eugene Parker, an American astrophysicist who first wrote about the dynamics of solar wind in the 1950s. The Parker Probe Plus is scheduled to
