Delta 4 Heavy PSP launch
A Delta 4 Heavy carrying NASA's Parker Solar Probe lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Aug. 12.

A NASA mission to travel closer to the sun than any previous spacecraft is on its way after a successful launch from Cape Canaveral Aug. 12.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...