Submit your name to fly aboard the parker solar probe spacecraft.
Nasa parker solar probe name.
Parker professor emeritus at the university of chicago visited the spacecraft that bears his name.
This is the first nasa mission named for a living researcher and it s humanity s first mission to explore the sun up close.
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Submit your name and it will be included in a memory card that will fly aboard parker solar probe spacecraft.
Eugene parker mission namesake.
Previously solar probe solar probe plus or solar probe is a nasa robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the sun.
The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
On may 18 2018 a memory card containing over a million names submitted by the public was installed onto nasa s parker solar probe spacecraft before its historic journey to the sun.
Nasa parker solar probe.
Grab a hot ticket to send your name into the heart of the sun nasa s incredible new venture into space will bring humanity one step closer to the stars.
Nasa wants to store your name on a microchip and hurl it toward the sun aboard its parker solar probe which will depart on a historic mission to earth s favorite star.
It will approach to within 9 86 solar radii 6 9 million km or 4 3 million miles from the center of the sun and by 2025 will travel at closest approach as fast as 690 000 km h.
Nasa s parker solar probe.
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.
Parker solar probe is named for dr.
Parker got a phone call from thomas zurbuchen nasa s associate administrator for the science directorate saying that nasa wanted change the name to parker solar probe.
The mission will travel through the sun s atmosphere facing brutal heat and radiation conditions and your name will go along for the ride.
Be a part of the first mission to touch the sun.