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NASA Spacecraft ‘Touches Sun’ In Defining Moment For Humankind
Early on Dec. 24, 2025, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun, getting to within just 4% of the Earth-sun distance.
In one of humankind’s most impressive feats of space exploration, Tuesday, Dec. 24 saw a heavily armored NASA spacecraft — no bigger than a small car — became the closest human-made object to the sun in history. Dr. Nour Raouafi, the project’s scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, equates this mission’s significance to the moon landing in 1969. Mission operators at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland will lose contact with the probe for three days and wait for a beacon tone on Dec. 27, 2024, that will confirm its survival.
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