254-Send Your Name to the Sun with Parker Solar Probe
June 24

NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe mission will launch in summer 2018 to travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, closer to the solar surface than any spacecraft before it, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions – and you can send your name along for the ride. To commemorate humanity’s first visit to the star we live with, NASA invites the public to submit their names to be included on a microchip headed to the Sun aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
At closest approach to the Sun, while the front of Parker Solar Probe’ solar shield faces temperatures approaching 2,600° Fahrenheit, or 1,400° Celsius, the spacecraft’s payload will be near room temperature, at about 85° F.