NASA Mission Named After University of Chicago Astrophysicist

(Chicago, IL)  --  A University of Chicago astrophysicist is the first living person to have a NASA mission named after him.  Eugene Parker will be at Cape Canaveral later this month to watch NASA launch its Parker Solar Probe.  The mission will take a spacecraft closer to the sun than ever before.  Parker is a 91-year-old professor emeritus at the U of C who is best known for introducing the theory of solar winds.