Mashable – If you’ve seen Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s Sun won’t include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun’s atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface.

NASA is working to finish out the space shuttle program with some key missions. First, the next space shuttle, Discovery, currently is sitting on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

During Endeavour’s visit, NASA astronauts completed three spacewalks, largely focused on installing the new Tranquility life module and attaching and unwrapping its seven-windowed cupola for the International Space Station

NASA astronauts onboard the International Space Station installed a rebuilt clogged water system and are now readying for their first spacewalk.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory will deliver high resolution images of the Sun ten times better than the average High-Definition television