‘Twas the night before launch... Before calling it a night, set an alarm so that you won’t miss the 3:33 a.m. EDT launch of our first-ever mission to “touch” the Sun. Our Parker #SolarProbe spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 on Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft will fly directly into the Sun’s atmosphere where, from a distance of – at the closest approach — approximately 4 million miles from its surface, the spacecraft will trace how energy and heat move through the Sun’s atmosphere and explore what accelerates the solar wind and solar energetic particles. NASA TV launch coverage will begin at 3 a.m. EDT on air and streaming at nasa.gov/live. Image credit: Bill Ingalls #nasa #solarprobe #sun #launch #rocketlaunch #science #kennedyspacecenter #solarsystem #planets #space #planetary #outerspace