"Surely, if we can put a man on the moon, we can put a man on the sun."
Delayed, yet again, due to a fault.
I’m impressed that Eugene Parker is still around to see this launch attempt.
Tom_Reingold said:
"Surely, if we can put a man on the moon, we can put a man on the sun."
There was a Goon Show program that spoke about putting a man on the sun.
When the suggestion was made that it would be dangerous, the response would be that they'd only launch at night, when the sun wasn't shining!
http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu
Well this seems audacious, outrageous and totally bodacious.
A probe that will reach within 4 million miles of the Sun and travel at speeds over 400,000 miles per hour. This is pretty outstanding, but I hope that we can revive this thread in 7 years to discuss the discoveries that it makes.