Gizmodo reports, "The Parker Solar Probe blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, setting itself on course to become both the fastest human craft ever launched..." Researchers reported that it drove as fast 430,000 miles per hour and is going to be the first space aircraft to probe the outer corona of the sun. Scientist Nicky Fox told the press, "I realise that might not sound that close, but imagine the Sun and the Earth were a metre apart.