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Nasa Solar Mission Nasa S First Mission To The Sun Set For The united launch alliance delta iv heavy rocket launches nasa's parker solar probe to touch the sun, sunday, aug. 12, 2018 from launch complex 37 at cape canaveral air force station, florida. credit: nasa. parker solar probe’s eighth flyby of the sun started on april 24, 2021 at 23.2 million miles from the sun. 1. meet parker. parker solar probe, nasa's first mission to go to the sun, is named after eugene parker, an american astrophysicist who first theorized that the sun constantly sends out a flow of particles and energy called the solar wind. this historic mission will explore one of the last regions of the solar system to be visited by a. On april 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the sun, parker solar probe encountered the specific magnetic and particle conditions at 18.8 solar radii (around 8.1 million miles) above the solar surface that told scientists it had crossed the alfvén critical surface for the first time and finally entered the solar atmosphere. Credit: nasa johns hopkins apl ed whitman. parker solar probe will launch on a united launch alliance delta iv heavy from cape canaveral air force station in florida. the mission requires such a powerful launch vehicle – despite the spacecraft’s relatively small size – because of the energy needed to achieve parker solar probe’s sun.