Tomorrow, NASA will get samples from the first sample return mission since a 1972 Apollo mission. The really cool part, is that the samples being returned are solar wind particles.
Meanwhile, this is just one of a few really cool sun things that NASA has been mooking about with.
Similarly, NASA is also continuing with testing and development of solar sails, which could be used operationally within a decade.
And finally, despite what mom told you, you can look at the sun without going blind. You simply need to go to this page, which offers current solar observations from a number of observatories in a wide range of wavelengths.
Launched by Bravo Romeo Delta at September 7, 2004 06:49 PMI think that thing crash landed in a desert in Utah.
~C