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I'm Andy Driesman and this is Solar 60
I'm here at Astrotech space operations

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cleanroom where technicians just
finished mounting a very special plaque

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to the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft
with me is Nicky Fox parker Solar Probe

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project scientists Nicky tell us about
this the Parker Solar Probe mission is

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named for Dr. Eugene Parker from the
University of Chicago this is a historic

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event alone as it is the first time NASA
has named a mission after a person

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during their lifetime and it's named for
gene because in 1958 he published a

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landmark paper which predicted the
existence of the million mile per hour

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solar wind and its widespread influence
across the solar system the plaque we

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just installed bears an inscription from
Dr. Parker let's see what lies ahead

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which is so appropriate for this
pioneering mission the plaque also

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houses a memory card that contains dr.
Parker's groundbreaking 1958 paper and

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photos of him from throughout his career
also on the memory card are the more

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than 1.1 million names that people from
all over the globe sent in during our

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send your name to the Sun campaign and
we're so thrilled to begin this journey

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of discovery with so many new friends
thanks Nicky and thank you all for

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sending your names to the Sun it's an
honor to work with such an amazing team

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of scientists engineers designers
technicians and managers to build tests

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launch and fly a spacecraft on a mission
to touch the Sun as Dr. Parker says

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let's see what lies ahead that's it from
the clean room and Astrotech I'm Andy

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Driesman and this is solar 60