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NASA renames solar probe mission

Submit on Thursday, June 1st, 2017 22:54

NASA has renamed the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft — humanity’s first mission to a star, which will launch in 2018 — as the Parker Solar Probe in honour of astrophysicist Eugene Parker.

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