# @uchicago on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BmbfTphHXWJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18617200-uchicago-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/043e640ec6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-08-13T18:42:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The University Of Chicago (@uchicago) — https://gondola.cc/uchicago

## Caption

Swipe & watch 🎥: In the early hours of Sunday morning Eugene Parker, Professor Emeritus at #UChicago, watched NASA launch his namesake spacecraft, the #ParkerSolarProbe. Dr. Parker is the only person ever to witness the launch of a #NASA mission named after themselves. (Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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- **Likes:** 1,512
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- **Comments:** 6

## Tags

nasa, uchicago, parkersolarprobe

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