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Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first-ever mission to “touch” the Sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, travels directly through the Sun’s atmosphere –ultimately to a distance of bout 4 million miles from the surface. Parker Solar Probe launched aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Aug.

Detailed explanation-2: -About the mission Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on January 31, 1958. A quick response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, Explorer 1’s success marked the beginning of the U.S. Space Age.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Parker Solar Probe’s mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The revolutionary solar probe became the first spacecraft to “touch” the sun when it swooped inside the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, during its eighth flyby on April 28, 2021, according to a statement from NASA (opens in new tab).

Detailed explanation-4: -NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is studying our star from closer than any other spacecraft. On Dec. 14, 2021, NASA announced that Parker had flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. This marked the first time in history that a spacecraft had touched the Sun.

Detailed explanation-5: -A few days ago NASA spacecraft, the Parker Probe, made history! The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun. The Parker Probe entered the Sun’s upper atmosphere known as the corona where the temperature intensity is up to 2 million-degree Fahrenheit.