On ‘Mission To Touch The Sun,’ Parker Solar Probe Launches Saturday

(CNN) — Humanity’s first visit to a star begins this weekend. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will explore the sun’s atmosphere in a mission that is expected to launch early Saturday. This is the agency’s first mission to the sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona.
If all goes according to plan, the probe will launch at 3:33 a.m. ET Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, one of the world’s most powerful rocket