If you're awake, and like this stuff, NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission is set to go at 3:31 AM ET.

[Princess Turandot]

They've started live coverage from the Kennedy Space Center. You can watch at http://nasa.gov/live. If you have the NASA channel on your TV service, you can see it there as well.

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[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Super sweet!

[chillfactor]

2. that would be 1:31 my time (MDT) so I will watch.....

Thanks for the post.

[chillfactor]

3. darn got an error message

[Princess Turandot]

4. Try their Youtube channel:

[Sherman A1]

5. Thank You

[hardluck]

6. Amazing! Thanks!

Just got home from my hockey game so perfect timing.

[Princess Turandot]

7. Liftoff!

It never gets old!

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[edbermac]

8. Watched it but kinda sucks it has no onboard camera.

[Princess Turandot]

9. Yeah. We get spoiled with each new enhancement..

I'm kinda bummed that there's no significant imaging instrument on board, but (understandably) they didn't want any unnecessary weight on board.

[Princess Turandot]

10. A cool photo from Johns Hopkins APL...

JHU-APL will be operating the spacecraft for NASA during the mission.

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[Crabby Appleton]

11. Thanks

Been watching the NASA feed since the launch.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

12. Thanks! Nocturnal creature here, only infomercials on at this time!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I had not even heard about this mission until I spoke with my astronomer son

earlier today. He NEVER tells me important things in a timely fashion. Darn. Anyway, he told me more or less all about this mission, and it is cool beyond imagining.

This astronomer son is in a PhD program and other than the Parker Solar Probe his best information today was that he thought he'd be completing his PhD several years before we'd thought. He only started last year, fall of 2017, and he told me tonight he thought he'd be done no later than 2021, possibly even 2020. Totally cool. And wonderful. Of course (and understandably) he's already concerned with life as a post-doc, but I'm willing to take it one step at a time. I know. Easy form mom to say.

[Dennis Donovan]

14. I've sent Kerbinauts to the sun in KSP...

They get so close and then *poof*.