Washington sources reported that NASA has said When NASA's Parker Solar Probe, humanity's first mission to "touch" a star, launches on July 31, it will carry more than scientific instruments on this historic journey it will also hold more than 1.1 million names submitted by the public to go to the Sun. Meanwhile back in March, NASA invited people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard its historic Parker Solar Probe. Submissions were accepted till April 27.



Moreover NASA this week revealed that a total of 1,137,202 names were submitted and confirmed over the seven and a half week period. Furthermore the US space agency said a memory card containing the names was installed on the spacecraft on May 18. Accordingly the card was mounted on a plaque bearing a dedication to and a quote from the mission's namesake, heliophysicist Eugene Parker, who first theorized the existence of the solar wind.

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Moreover throughout its seven-year mission, the spacecraft will swoop through the Sun's atmosphere 24 times, getting closer to our star than any spacecraft has gone before. Nicola Fox, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland said "Parker Solar Probe is going to revolutionize our understanding of the Sun, the only star we can study up close”.

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