{"id":169619,"date":"2023-08-13T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/5-years-430000-mph-and-counting-how-nasas-parker-solar-probe-is-making-history"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:24:25","slug":"5-years-430000-mph-and-counting-how-nasas-parker-solar-probe-is-making-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/5-years-430000-mph-and-counting-how-nasas-parker-solar-probe-is-making-history","title":{"rendered":"5 Years, 430,000 MPH, and Counting: How NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe Is Making History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-years-430000-mph-and-counting-how-nasas-parker-solar-probe-is-making-history2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe marks five successful years in space, achieving milestones like touching the Sun and collecting more than double the expected data. The mission\u2019s continuing journey promises to deepen our understanding of space weather and the Sun\u2019s effects on Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC\/CIL\/Brian Monroe.<\/p>\n<p><strong> NASA<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. Its vision is \u201cTo discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.\u201d Its core values are \u201csafety, integrity, teamwork, excellence, and inclusion.\u201d NASA conducts research, develops technology and launches missions to explore and study Earth, the solar system, and the universe beyond. It also works to advance the state of knowledge in a wide range of scientific fields, including Earth and space science, planetary science, astrophysics, and heliophysics, and it collaborates with private companies and international partners to achieve its goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe marks five successful years in space, achieving milestones like touching the Sun and collecting more than double the expected data. The mission\u2019s continuing journey promises to deepen our understanding of space weather and the Sun\u2019s effects on Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC\/CIL\/Brian Monroe. NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}