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hi I'm NASA Kennedy's Malcolm Boston and

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I'm taking you inside KSC

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a mission that's been in the making for

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60 years has finally begun

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe lifted off

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from Cape Canaveral Air Force stations

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Space Launch Complex 37 at 3:31 a.m. on

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Sunday August 12th it was the start of a

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landmark study of the star of our solar

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system the Sun the size of a small car

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the spacecraft was sent on its long

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journey by a United Launch Alliance

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Delta 4 heavy rocket the Parker Solar

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Probe is the fourth of six missions this

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year for NASA's launch services program

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based here at Kennedy the mission was

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first proposed in 1958 by dr. Eugene

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Parker a pioneer in Helio physics the

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study of the Sun after anticipating the

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launch the University of Chicago

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professor is looking forward to seeing

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his vision becoming a reality well I

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really have to turn from biting my nails

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and getting it launched to thinking

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about all the interesting things which I

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don't know yet and which will be made

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clear I assume over the next five or six

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or seven years

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and it's a whole new phase and it's

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gonna be fascinating with technology now

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in place for a mission to fly into the

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sun's atmosphere the spacecraft's

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findings will help researchers improve

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their understanding of phenomena such as

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the solar wind the spacecraft will

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transmit its first science observations

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in December beginning a revolution in

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our understanding of the star that makes

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life on Earth possible and remember