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NASA’s first mission to go to the sun and make a suicidal plunge into the chimney-like star next year  has been renamed the Parker Solar Probe honoring Eugene Parker who first theorized that the sun constantly sends out a flow of energy particles called the solar wind. This is the first time NASA named its mission after a living scientist. ...

NASA’s challenging and ambitious Solar Probe Plus mission is inching closer to reality when the design of the spacecraft was approved by successfully by its Critical Design Review (CDR) panel recently. The independent NASA review board met at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland to review the mission plan that was presented by APL, which will ...