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NASA will discuss its plans for the Solar Probe Plus soon (11 AM EDT, 3 PM UTC):

NASA will make an announcement about the agency's first mission to fly directly into our sun's atmosphere during an event at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 31, from the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Both the Solar Probe Plus and ESA's Solar Orbiter are planned to launch in 2018.

Update: They renamed Solar Probe Plus to "Parker Solar Probe" after Eugene Parker, a living scientist who developed the theory of solar wind.

1. "discuss its plans" - https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-make-announcement-about-first-mission-to-touch-sun
2. "Solar Probe Plus" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Probe_Plus
3. "website" - https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
4. "Solar Orbiter" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Orbiter
5. "planned to launch in 2018" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/02/1915214
6. "Eugene Parker" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Parker

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