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NASA launches Parker Solar Probe on mission to 'touch the Sun' [i]NASA's first mission to "touch the Sun" produced an artificial sunrise as it left Earth. The space agency's Parker Solar Probe, which will fly into the Sun's atmosphere, or corona — traveling closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history — began its unprecedented journey in darkness on Sunday morning (Aug. 12) atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket. Riding the bright glowing plume of the booster's three rocket engines, the probe lifted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT) from Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Less than an hour later, the spacecraft separated from the rocket's third stage to begin a three-month trip to the Sun — by way of a flyby of the planet Venus in September.[/i]
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