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NASA's plan for historic trip to sun's atmosphere

NASA will outline its very first mission directly into the sun's atmosphere Tuesday. The Solar Probe Plus is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2018 and will orbit within four million miles of the sun's surface. CBS News science and futurist contributor Michio Kaku joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the historic trip.
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