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Indian American physicist helped lay foundation for NASA’s mission to ‘touch’ the Sun
By Press Trust of India | New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 12, 2018 03:03 PM IST
Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s intervention in allowing a research paper on ‘solar winds’ to be published has helped make Dr Eugene Newman Parker the first living scientist after whom a mission has been named.
NASA launches Parker Solar Probe, journey to explore the sun begins
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON AUG 12, 2018 01:54 PM IST
Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe, that costs about $ 1.5 bn has been over five decades in the making, and is unique for bringing a space probe closer to the sun than any man made object.