PHOTO GALLERY POSTCARDS FROM THE SUN
OVER A MILLION PASSENGERS
NASA is always looking for public participation and interest in its missions as it seeks to inspire a new generation of astronomers and engineers. Prior to the launch of the PSP, NASA launched a different mission to get as many names on the spacecraft as possible. Through the NASA website, anyone was able to sign up with their name and email address to put their name on the first-ever mission to ‘touch’ the Sun. This led to the addition of a microchip on the spacecraft that holds an outstanding 1.1 million names!
Along with its 1.1 million passengers there are photos of Eugene Parker and a copy of his 1958 scientific paper titled ‘Dynamics of the Interplanetary Gas
