Today new ideas and techniques make solar science one of the most exciting areas of astronomy.

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spd/solar_probe.html
Solar Probe Mission

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
IMAGE Home Page: scheduled to be launched February 2000

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/future.html
ISTP Future Missions