In the Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Support Building II, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, members of the news and social media participate in a prelaunch mission briefing on NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Briefing participants from left are: Karen Fox of NASA Communications, Omar Baez, launch director at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Scott Messer, program manager for NASA Programs with United Launch Alliance, Kathy Rice, launch weather officer for the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and Dwayne Brown of NASA Communications. The Parker Solar Probe will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Last Updated: Aug. 10, 2018
Editor: Bob Granath
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