> To reach the sun, you need to shed a lot of kinetic energy - and given that you’re in a vacuum on most of the way there, the only way to do that is through a

> To reach the sun, you need to shed a lot of kinetic energy - and given that you’re in a vacuum on most of the way there, the only way to do that is through a lot of deceleration, which is really the same thing as retrograde acceleration If you can fenagle yourself into a highly elliptical solar orbit, then a relatively small retrograde burn at apoapsis could get you into the sun.