
NASA's spacecraft that will "touch" the sun arrives in Florida
Last week, NASA’s Mission to "Touch the Sun" finally arrives in Florida for the final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018. Parker Solar Probe, how the project is called, is humanity’s first mission to the Sun. After launch, it will orbit directly through the solar atmosphere – the corona – closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone. While facing brutal heat and radiation, the mission will reveal fundamental science behind wh