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Achieving a collision course with the sun requires destroying the current orbital velocity, which demands an enormous and currently unattainable amount of fuel. Even with gravitational assists, the fine-tuned calculations necessary make precise collision extremely challenging, let alone feasible.
Furthermore, the sun’s atmosphere and immense heat ensure that any spacecraft attempting to land or crash would disintegrate or vaporize long before impact.
Thus, crashing into the sun remains mostly a theoretical concept—an intriguing idea, but one rooted in constraints imposed by physics and engineering.
In Summary
- Launching away from Earth’s orbit is difficult but feasible; heading toward the sun is vastly more complex.