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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completes historic Christmas Eve flyby of the sun — but it could take days to know if it survived

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history-making attempt to fly closer to the sun than we have ever been before — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to the historic Apollo moon landing in 1969. At 6:53 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Dec. 24), the car-sized spacecraft was scheduled to zoom […]