People have been to the moon, has any body got to the sun,if yes, who and when?

Question

People have been to the moon, has any body got to the sun,if yes, who and when?

Answer 1

No one has been to the sun. The sun is a star it has no surface its just gas burning from billions of miles away. No one could get close to the sun even if they wanted to if gravity didnt kill them first the sun sure would theres nothing that can be made to withstand the heat if the sun, in other words they'd torch before they even got close.

Answer 2

With the technology we have it is impossible it is way to hot. Iam not even sure how close you could get to it without frying.

Answer 3

no one could ever go on the sun! the heat and the level of radiation would kill anything for miles, we will never be able to go anywhere near the sun.

Answer 4

ooh yes there has been one person to go there. Her name was Ima r****d. When she went there she was a white female, now she is black. and dead.

Answer 5

no one ever went to the sun b/c they woud just burn to death before they got even close to the sun.

Answer 6

First of all, many believe the recent trips too the moon were faked.  Why r there no recent photos of the landers left on the moon from the Hubble Telescope.  The people u mean that went to the moon colonized it before this age of man and before Eden, they also colonized Mars. As for the sun, no frigin way.  Nasa has sent probes but the surface of the sun is to extreme to allow anything or anyone to be their unless u were the devil himself.

Answer 7

^ lol up there....that made me chuckle! :D

Are you nuts? It's too hot and you would be nothing before you even got there....it's way tooooooooooooooo hot!

Answer 8

they burned up, then vanished into thin air  LOL!

pretty sure they only study the sun from

a distance

Answer 9

See, the trouble with never having paid attention when you were in school is, when you get older, you have a tendency to ask questions that will make people look at you and wonder, "How is this person walking around loose?"  When you were in school, I'm SURE that at some point they tried to teach you that the sun is very, VERY  hot! Go out and stand in the sun for a minute. Feel how hot it is? You're 93,000,000 miles away from it. That's 93 MILLION miles! How can you possibly think that anyone could LAND on it?

To officially answer your very poor question - No, nobody has landed on the sun. Nobody ever will.

Answer 10

Yes, I've been to the sun, make sure you bring some tanning lotion, it's a little hot!

Answer 11

No one knows their names, but some people tried going to the sun and burnt up hundreds of miles away from the heat. NASA doesn't publish their names because they don't want anyone to make fun of them for being stupid enough for trying to land on the sun, or for even thinking of landing on the sun.

Answer 12

I think it is too hot to go there and a person would cook to death (including the vehicle)

Answer 13

It isn't possible to go to the Sun and live to tell about it.

The optical surface of the Sun (the photosphere) is known to have a temperature of approximately 6,000 K. Above it lies the solar corona at a temperature of 1,000,000 K. The high temperature of the corona shows that it is heated by something other than direct heat conduction from the photosphere.  These temperatures are the reason we can only approach to a substantial distance from the sun.

The first satellites designed to observe the Sun were NASA's Pioneers 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, which were launched between 1959 and 1968. These probes orbited the Sun at a distance similar to that of the Earth, and made the first detailed measurements of the solar wind and the solar magnetic field.

In the 1970s, Helios 1 and the Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount provided scientists with significant new data on solar wind and the solar corona.  The Helios 1 satellite was a joint U.S.-German probe that studied the solar wind from an orbit carrying the spacecraft inside Mercury's orbit at perihelion. The Skylab space station, launched by NASA in 1973, included a solar observatory module called the Apollo Telescope Mount that was operated by astronauts resident on the station. Skylab made the first time-resolved observations of the solar transition region and of ultraviolet emissions from the solar corona.  

In 1980, the Solar Maximum Mission was launched by NASA. This spacecraft was designed to observe gamma rays, X-rays and UV radiation from solar flares during a time of high solar activity.

Japan's Yohkoh (Sunbeam) satellite, launched in 1991, observed solar flares at X-ray wavelengths.

One of the most important solar missions to date has been the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, jointly built by the European Space Agency and NASA and launched on December 2, 1995. Originally a two-year mission, SOHO has now operated for over ten years (as of 2007). It has proved so useful that a follow-on mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is planned for launch in 2008. Situated at the Lagrangian point between the Earth and the Sun (at which the gravitational pull from both is equal), SOHO has provided a constant view of the Sun at many wavelengths since its launch. In addition to its direct solar observation, SOHO has enabled the discovery of large numbers of comets, mostly very tiny sungrazing comets which incinerate as they pass the Sun.

Answer 14

I doubt we'll ever send a manned probe to the Sun, or anywhere near it, because the radiation (without even counting the heat) is so dangerous.

Even unmanned probes haven't gotten any close than about 250 million miles, that's about 25,000 times further than the earth is wide!

However, NASA's Solar Probe will shatter that record by flying within about 9 million miles of the surface in 2015.

The surface of the sun is actually relatively cool (about 5000 degrees F), but its corona (the halo-like thing people can see during an eclipse) is more than 200 times hotter! The trick here is that no one even knows why! Hopefully the Solar Probe will have some answers.

Answer 15

umm, if you landed on the sun, you would shrivle up, & die...

Answer 16

are you serious?

Answer 17

I believe this to not be possible. Anything too close to the sun would incinerate before physical contact could be made

Answer 18

uhmm the sun is over 5800 Kelvin hot in its surface.. we don't even have the technology to dig to the center of the earth.. which is much cooler than the sun with only a predicted temperature of 3000 - 5000 degrees Celsius as there is no exact way to calculate the temperature of the core.. so to answer your question.. no we've never been to the sun..

Answer 19

no man how the h**l would some1 go to the sun they won't even be able to reach their cuz they would burn from even far

Answer 20

well not to the sun exactly, but if you go around the sun and turn around really quick, you can travel to the past

Answer 21

NO. Right now, it would be impossible and stupid. Wait for further advancements in technology, please.

Answer 22

Jesus and Me yesterday, 1:00PM. Anywho, I doubt anyone has gone to the sun. Isn't it a little too hot to go? You'll probably melt no, well burn.

Answer 23

no, the sun would kill you, ou wouldd burn horribly before ever getting close.

Answer 24

When I was little, my dad decided we should have a nice family holiday on the Sun,... you see fridge tickets were on sale, probably still are.

But even flying in the Super Fridge shuttle, we came back with a little sun burn.  Mom said never again!!!.

Now that I have grown up, I am planing to go to Pluto, now demoted to Planetoid,  on my next universe holiday.   .

Has anybody here been to a Planetoid, bet I will be the 1st one.  

It is so far aways from our Sun for sure I will not worry about sun block, perhaps I should pack lots of pullovers (?), I'll keep you posted...

Answer 25

Didn't you ever hear the story abot the man who made

wings of wax and flew to the sun  long time ago

Answer 26

If anyone ever tried to "get" to the sun, they would fry before they even got close!

Answer 27

As you near the sun the space craft and instruments will melt with its contents and vaporise finally into individual metal atoms of the constituent structures, each separated by distance of meters. Then organic contents (living things are not exempt but must have vaporised long ago) will lose their chemical bonding first, then the individual atoms of carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen etc go their separate ways. Finally, if at all  these atoms land on cool spots (around 6000 deg. Kelvin, give or take a few hundred degrees) a bigger surprise awaits them, atoms. There can be no solid matter anywhere in Sun for thousands of miles around, but gases compressed into plasma. When these go deeper (if they overcome enormous radiation pressure) they will be split apart into electrons and protons/neutrons into further fundamental entities in an atmosphere where the energy releases around, are on the order of a several atomic explosions of Hiroshima type, but far weaker than several hundred Hydrogen bomb explosions routinely happening in every few square yards every second, deeper inside.

No 'Sci Fi' movie can ever visualise, let alone capture this phenomenon.

Answer 28

In 2012, NASA is going to launch a satellite into solar orbit closer than Mercury.  That's right - NASA is launching a mission to the Sun.  Won't it get hot?  It would, but they're sending it at night.

Answer 29

Nope. And I don't think this would be possible in the near future. NASA wants to send a probe near the Sun's surface (Solar Probe +), but it wouldn't exactly reach it.

Take a look:

http://solarprobe.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Probe

Answer 30

You can't go to the sun- it's so hot it will cause whatever space vehicle you're traveling in to combust before it gets anywhere close to the sun.