NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be humanity’s first-ever mission to explore the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will launch in mid-summer 2018. It will travel directly through the Sun's atmosphere about four million miles from our star's surface – facing heat and radiation unlike any spacecraft in history – and make critical observations to answer decades-old questions about how stars work. Mission data ultimately will improve forecasts of major space weather events that affect life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.

Wow, it will succeed?

Well, it's fingers crossed. A lot of this stuff fails miserably, but NASA has a pretty good track record since they've been at this longer, so odds are good.

Isn't this the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?

[Edited 9/29/17 18:00pm]