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Cullen Desforges
April 19th, 2021
Ingenuity snaps a photo of its shadow as the Mars Helicopter hovers over the surface of the red planet during the April 19, 2021, flight. Credit: NASA
At long last, history has finally been made as humankind has made the next great stride in powered flight; the first flight on another planet.
On April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter successfully took to the Martian skies in what is hopefully the first of up to five experimental flights expected to take place over the duration of the next few weeks.
“We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,” said MiMi Aung, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory before thanking the whole team for their years of dedication on the project. “We, together, flew at Mars and we, together, now have our Wright brothers moment.”
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The mini helicopter began its flight approximately at 3:45 p.m. (India time) and the data was received at NASA headquarters around 4.25 p.m. (India time). It took off a few feet from the ground, hovered in the air for about 20 to 30 seconds, and landed.Afte
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