On a mission to "touch the Sun," NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made history by becoming the spacecraft that flies closest to the Sun.
After losing communication for a few days during its burning-hot fly-by, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, received the signal just before midnight EST on Thursday, NASA said in an update.
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by Joji Xavier
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