[b]NASA is set to release new details this week about the agency's "unprecedented" mission to "touch the sun."

The mission, Solar Probe Plus, will launch in summer of 2018 and marks the agency's first mission to fly into the sun's atmosphere. Data collected during the mission is expected to improve forecasting of space weather events that impact life on Earth and the lives of astronauts, NASA said in a statement.

"Placed in orbit within four million miles of the sun’s surface, and facing heat and radiation unlike any spacecraft in history, the spacecraft will explore the sun’s outer atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old questions about the physics of how stars work," NASA said in a statement.

NASA will make the announcement live on NASA Television and the agency's website at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday.


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Lol!

I just dey watch NASA. By the time sun finishes with their ass, their sons will not recognize them again

That's pretty cool, but "placed in orbit four million miles from the sun's surface" isn't really "touching" now, is it?


Is there any imagery of the spacecraft?

Wake me up when they depart to Jupiter.

Ride on NASA