Nasa launches historic mission to 'touch the Sun'

Nasa has launched a historic probe to 'touch the Sun's surface' in a £1.2 billion mission. Report by Jessica Wakefield.

[Greenpoloboy]

To answer an obvious Any probe would indeed melt if it touched the sun. So clearly this has to be done at night.

[noreasters]

least it's not as ridiculous as the time NASA spent billions of dollars in creating a space pen to work in well - space, Yet all that time the Russians was using an ordinary pencil 😂

[Brianramos]

North Korea confirms it has landed a man on the sun

[-scrim]

They're doing it at night, right? Surely NASA isn't dumb enough to do it during the day...