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NASA blasts off historic probe to ‘touch Sun’
TAMPA, Aug 12, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – NASA on Sunday blasted off a $1.5 billion
spacecraft toward the Sun on a historic mission to protect the Earth by
unveiling the mysteries of dangerous solar storms.
“Three, two, one and liftoff!” said a NASA commentator as the Parker Solar
Probe soared skyward aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral,
Florida at 3:31 am (0731 GMT).
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