Submit your name to fly aboard the parker solar probe spacecraft.
Nasa parker solar probe name.
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.
The mission will travel through the sun s atmosphere facing brutal heat and radiation conditions and your name will go along for the ride.
Nasa s parker solar probe.
Be a part of the first mission to touch the sun.
Submit your name and it will be included in a memory card that will fly aboard parker solar probe spacecraft.
The spacecraft about the size of a small car will travel directly into the sun s atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star s surface.
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.
Eugene parker mission namesake.
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.
This is the first nasa mission named for a living researcher and it s humanity s first mission to explore the sun up close.
Parker solar probe is named for dr.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
Nasa parker solar probe.
Parker professor emeritus at the university of chicago visited the spacecraft that bears his name.
Eugene parker the first person to predict the existence of the solar wind in 1958 parker developed a theory showing how the sun s hot corona by then known to be millions of degrees fahrenheit is so hot that it overcomes the sun s gravity.
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.