Highlights This is the first-ever controlled flight on another planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 'Wright Brothers' moment came on Monday (April 19, 2021) when it successfully performed the first-ever controlled flight on Mars. The history was made with the help of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter which took off and hovered on Jazero Crater and landed back successfully on the Martian land. This is the first time when a controlled flight was attempted on a foreign planet. The successful first flight of Ingenuity on Mars paves the way to innumerable possibilities of powered flight on other planets. "Ingenuity is the latest in a long and storied tradition of NASA projects achieving a space exploration goal once thought impossible," said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk.