English: Following the successful liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launching NASA's Parker Solar Probe, Tori McLendon of NASA Communications interviews Dr. Eugene Parker. A pioneer in heliophysics, Dr. Parker is the S. Chandrasekhar distinguished service professor emeritus for the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He first proposed such a mission as the Parker Solar Probe in 1958. This is the first agency mission named for a living person.