VAUSE: Well, NASA will launch the fastest made human object ever, on Saturday, getting closer to the sun than ever before. CNN's Lynda Kinkade has more on the incredible milestone and what it all means.</s>LYNDA KINKADE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: NASA's next mission is aiming high. As early as this weekend, it plans to launch the Parker Solar Probe, which will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it. The journey by a robotic probe about the size of a small car is literally, one of the hottest in science.</s>GERONIMO VILLANUEVA, PLANETARY SCIENTIST, NASA: We're going to be very, very close. We're going to be actually touching the particles of the sun.</s>KINKADE: It's a seven-year mission with a price tag of $1-1/2 billion. That will bring NASA about 6 million kilometers from the sun's surface. The craft is designed to withstand searing temperatures which could reach more than 1,300 degrees Celsius.</s>VILLANUEVA: Not only we had to go flying very fast, entering the sun's atmosphere, but we also had to go reaching millions of degrees temperature. So, we have this special heat shield. It's going to be around five inches thick and that thing is made up of special materials.</s>KINKADE: The probe will eventually swoop into the solar corona, the outer most part of the sun's atmosphere known for its magnetic charges and solar winds. There energized particles are whipped into space, which interfere with certain technology systems back on earth.</s>VILLANUEVA: The sun emits a lot of particles -- high magnetic particles that they affect our communication systems. So when we get a massive</s>KINKADE: It's the first time NASA has named a mission after a living person. Astrophysicist Newman Eugene Parker, who pioneered the study of solar winds. Lynda Kinkade, CNN.</s>VAUSE: Thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause. Please stay with us. "WORLD SPORT" is up next. You're watching CNN.
NASA Probe Will Fly Closer To Sun Than Any Craft Before.