50 years ago, scientists were gearing up to hurl a probe at the sun
Excerpt from the July 6, 1974 issue of Science News
![An illustration of the NASA Parker Solar Probe getting close to the sun](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/061424_cm_50ya-solarprobes_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (upper right in this illustration) is the first spacecraft to have touched the sun’s corona (wavy red grid) and lived to tell the tale.
Ben Smith/NASA, JHUAPL