NASA announces first-of-its-kind mission to the sun -- the Parker Solar Probe's mission begins in the summer of 2018 | CBS News

Three years after its launch, the Parker Solar Probe made its first passage through the sun's upper atmosphere. In 2018, we got a behind-the-scenes look at how NASA engineers built the probe to survive the tremendously hot journey. | NPR

A mission 60 years in the making, Parker #SolarProbe will make a historic journey to the Sun’s corona. Discover how a recently-installed heat shield will keep our spacecraft and its instruments at a relatively comfortable temperature of approximately 85 degrees Fahrenheit: https://go.nasa.gov/2Kz4xd5 | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration