(May 12, 2017 at 11:01 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: waste of a good (I hope) rocket
BTW, the delta v to get to the sun is rather large. Even the planet Mercury is harder to rocket to than Pluto.
Really. And the sun is far harder still.
Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't the sun's gravity do much of the work?
Can you explain this to an interested layperson in terms that aren't riddled with calculus?