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paka Solar Probe really is a historic
mission
it was first dreamed of in 1958 and it's
remains the highest priority mission
throughout that period the reason it
hasn't flown is just because it's taken
a while for technology to catch up with
the dreams that we had for this amazing
mission this is a journey into
never-never land you might say where
it's too hot for any sensible spacecraft
to function but some very clever
engineering and construction has
succeeded in making what looks like a
very workable instrument to create this
wondrous machine it takes hundreds and
hundreds of people who have dedicated
years some of them more than a decade
each of them doing their part with
tremendous dedication checking
themselves and checking each other and
testing the whole system we're going to
be rewriting textbooks that kids in the
future are going to see the solar system
in such a different way because of the
work that me and my colleagues are doing
and that's so exciting the launch energy
required to reach the Sun it's 55 times
of required to get to the Mars and two
times to put home during midsummer earth
and the other planets are in the most
favorable alignment to allow us to get a
close to the Sun thousands of people
work millions of hours to put together
this rocket that will launch the Parker
Solar Probe spacecraft on its historic
mission to the Sun put 10 years of your
life into something I think the tensest
moment will be launched this is a 60
year journey to make panca Solar Probe a
reality and to be on the pad and ready
to launch
that is definitely the coolest thing
about my job Rosi ignition 10 nine
mr. star eight seven six five
three two one zero
liftoff of the mighty delta 4 heavy
rocket with NASA's Parker Solar Probe a
daring mission to shed light on the
mysteries of our closest star
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I am speechless that was the most
amazing sight and sound and Russia and
she's still going up and we can still
see her there's a beautiful sort of halo
sunburst around her which just seems so
fitting
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