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nASA has never named a spacecraft after researcher during their lifetime well ladies and gentlemen were about to make history it is my great honor a few days before your 90th birthday Jean to announce that we're renaming the Solar Probe plus spacecraft to be known from now on as the Parker Solar Probe congratulations thanks so much I'm certainly greatly honored to be associated with such a heroic scientific space mission by heroic of course I'm referring to the temperature the thermal radiation from the Sun and the extreme measures developed to survive that radiation and collect scientific data should be fully appreciated as a theoretician I greatly admire the scientists and engineers whose patient efforts together converted the Solar Probe concept into a functioning reality ready to do battle with the solar elements as it divulges the secrets of the expanding corona so array for Solar Probe thank you it's my great honor on behalf of the whole Solar Probe team to present you with the very first scale model of Parker Solar Probe