It s real, said
NBC News.
Aung gave the other engineers in mission control a thumbs up to a crowd of applause and cheers before tearing up her contingency speech in celebration of the successful launch.
“We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet, Aung said.
Aung said NASA officials had been talking for so long about our Wright brothers moment on Mars, comparing Monday s experiment achieved by
Orville and
Wilbur Wright s first successful motor-operated airplane flight 117 years prior.
The Ingenuity helicopter paid tribute to the Wright brothers by having affixed a tiny swath of wing fabric from the original flight at Kitty Hawk under the miniature craft s solar panel.
NASA s Ingenuity helicopter makes historic first flight on Mars
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NASA s Ingenuity helicopter has successful launched, hovered and landed on the surface of Mars.
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NASA s Ingenuity helicopter may only have been in the air for less than a minute, but it has gone down in history as the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on Mars.
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The first human-made powered aircraft has successfully flown on another planet
Data confirming the successful flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter arrived at NASA just before 9:00pm AEST on Monday
Footage of the flight, as well as a still image of the surface of March from the helicopter, were also been sent back to Earth
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In this image from NASA, NASA s experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity hovers above the surface of Mars Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. (NASA via AP)
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Print article CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet.
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Jan McLeod is already getting her dancing in order for the Whanganui Festival of Light. Photo / Bevan Conley
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NASAâs Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
NASAâs Ingenuity team receives first flight data By Associated Press | April 19, 2021 at 6:08 AM CDT - Updated April 19 at 9:07 AM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) â NASAâs experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet.
The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) copter even carried a bit of wing fabric from the Wright Flyer that made similar history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
âAltimeter data confirms that Ingenuity has performed its first flight, the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet,â said the helicopterâs chief pilot back on Earth, Havard Grip, his voice breaking as his teammates erupted in applause.