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margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit;">Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA’s First Mission to Touch the Sun</h1></div></div><section id="ember788" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Want to get the hottest ticket this summer without standing in line? NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe mission launching in summer 2018. The mission will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions — and your name will go along for the ride. “This probe will journey to a region humanity has never explored before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This mission will answer questions scientists have sought to uncover for more than six decades.” Understanding the Sun has always been a top priority for space scientists. Studying how the Sun affects space and the space environment of planets is the field known as heliophysics. The field is not only vital to understanding Earth’s most important and life-sustaining star, it supports exploration in the solar system and beyond. Submissions will be accepted until April 27, 2018. Learn more and add your name to the mission here: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="http://go.nasa.gov/HotTicket" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">http://go.nasa.gov/HotTicket</a></strong></font></p><div class="context-full_width dnd-atom-wrapper type-video" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class=""><font size="4" class="">The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the Sun's atmosphere about 4 million miles from the star's surface. The primary science goals for the mission are to trace how energy and heat move through the solar corona and to explore what accelerates the solar wind as well as solar energetic particles. The mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can spread out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds.</font></span></div></div><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-side_image" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0em 3em 2em; max-width: 320px; float: right; clear: right; width: 320px;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/psp-swingbysuncloseupsun_1024_0.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><font size="4" class=""></font></a></div></div></div></section></div></div></div></section></div></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></div></body></html>