[Governor Dinwiddie]

Speaking as an engineer and a mathematician I think this is ridiculous. How can we get any spacecraft that close to the sun????

I worked for Fairchild Space Company, now merged with Martin Marietta. I worked on top secret Navy satellites. We built those them tough as sh*t. But I know damn well right they would not stand up within 26 miles of the the Sun. This reporter has to be nuts.

[NorseViking]

“” “” I worked for Fairchild Space Company, now merged with Martin Marietta. I worked on top secret Navy satellites. We built those them tough as sh*t. But I know damn well right they would not stand up within 26 miles of the the Sun. This reporter has to be nuts.”” “”

Yep, absolute BS. Imagine the gravity of the sun alone. It makes planets like Neptune 17 times as heavy as Earth to orbit around itself from near 3 billion miles away.