EU Sending a Probe To the Sun 160
First time accepted submitter Mindflux0 writes "The European Union is going forward with the proposed Solar Orbiter, a space probe designed to study the sun. The probe will orbit closer to the sun than any other man-made object at a sizzling 42 million km. It's planned to launch in 2017 for close to a billion euros."
It's the ESA not the EU (Score:4, Insightful)
The European Space Agency is quite different than the European Union. It includes Canada for a start...
Re:Seems like a foolish way to spend money right n (Score:5, Insightful)
You do realize it that when you spend money it is not incinerated right?
If the EU spends 1 billion or 100 billion they do not have 1 billion less, it is just redistributed differently.