Aviation News Item: 11991

3rd Sep 2010

Source: aero-news.net

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Aero-News Quote of the Day
"This project allows humanity's ingenuity to go where no spacecraft has ever gone before. For the very first time, we'll be able to touch, taste and smell our sun."

Source: Lika Guhathakurta, Solar Probe Plus program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, dicussing an upcoming mission to send a probe into the sun's atmosphere, some 4 million miles from its surface

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