UPDATE

PARKER SOLAR PROBE

(scroll down past William Shatners Video)

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Want to get the hottest ticket this summer

without standing in line?

Submissions will be accepted until April 27, 2018

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe mission launching in summer 2018. The mission will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions — and your name will go along for the ride.

“This probe will journey to a region humanity has never explored before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This mission will answer questions scientists have sought to uncover for more than six decades.”

Understanding the Sun has always been a top priority for space scientists. Studying how the Sun affects space and the space environment of planets is the field known as heliophysics. The field is not only vital to understanding Earth’s most important and life-sustaining star, it supports exploration in the solar system and beyond.

Submissions will be accepted until April 27, 2018. Learn more and add your name to the mission here:

 http://go.nasa.gov/HotTicket

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William Shatner Explains in video below

For additional information about the Parker Solar Probe mission, visit: www.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe

Follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: www.facebook.com/NASASunScience and www.twitter.com/NASASun

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UPDATE

PARKER SOLAR PROBE

Solar Probe, lifts off at 0331 hrs.

EDT on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018

from

Space Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida…