Sundiver

**Yazata** · (This post was last modified: May 30, 2017 12:41 AM by Yazata.)

NASA is planning to announce a new spacecraft intended to visit the Sun! Or at least closer to the Sun than ever before, inside the Sun's corona. The mission is going to be called 'Solar Probe Plus'. There's supposed to be a news conference about it Wednesday, to be live-streamed on NASA's website.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...61971.html

It's gonna be bright and toasty down there. The plan seems to be for a small spacecraft that's going to wear its shades and plenty of sun-block, sheltering behind a heat shield like a space-capsule reentering the atmosphere from orbit.

**C C** · May 30, 2017 07:30 PM

Hopefully it won't trigger a new genre of complaints in Conspiracy Land about NASA suppressing data from the craft concerning toroidal and occasionally anthropomorphic "sun-ghosts".

**Zinjanthropos** · May 30, 2017 08:05 PM

Can we pack some nuclear waste on board and drop it off once there.

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jun 2, 2017 03:31 AM by Magical Realist.)

They could spare themselves alot of overheating if they just go at night.