If it flies successfully, it may change how we explore planets — and beam back unprecedented video. Watch NASA's livestream from mission control below. NASA is about to fly its Mars helicopter for the first time. The feat could revolutionize spaceflight. The helicopter, called Ingenuity, traveled nearly 300 million miles to the red planet tucked inside the belly of the Perseverance rover. Now it's sitting in an airfield in Mars' Jezero Crater, where it's set to take the first controlled powered flight ever conducted on another planet early on Wednesday. You can watch NASA attempt this feat via a livestream from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California (it's embedded below).