Public domain
Dr. Parker Watches Parker Solar Probe Liftoff
From the collection of NASA Image and Video Library. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Dr. Eugene Parker, a pioneer in heliophysics and S. Chandrasekhar distinguished service professor emeritus for the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, watches the launch of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. This is the first agency mission named for a living person. The liftoff took place at 3:31 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. The spacecraft was built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDr. Parker Watches Parker Solar Probe Liftoff. NASA/KSC, 2018-08-12. Public domain. ID: KSC-20180812-PH_GEB01_0038.
