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A piece of Ohio landed on Mars Monday when NASA gave the name of the Wright Brothers to a dusty plain where for the first time, a powered vehicle broke the hold of Martian gravity, rose 10 feet, hovered and safely came back to rest. Mere hours after Monday’s successful test of the helicopter named Ingenuity, NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen christened the ground Wright Brothers Field for the Dayton inventors who first flew a powered aircraft Dec. 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. “Now, 117 years after the Wright brothers succeeded in making the first flig...

Scientific American Ingenuity’s ‘Wright Stuff’: A Piece of the Wright Flyer Will Soar on Mars The first powered atmospheric flight on another planet will honor its roots with a payload drawn from the dawn of aviation itself Print In this illustration, NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity stands on the Red Planet’s surface as the agency’s Perseverance rover ( partially visible at left) rolls away. Credit: NASA and JPL-Caltech Advertisement When NASA’s latest Mars-roving robot, Perseverance, landed on the Red Planet in February, its cargo included a long virtual list of “firsts.” ...

Wright-Patt, park service observe Wright brothers’ 117th anniversary Amy Rollins © Provided by Dayton Daily News Amanda Wright Lane and Stephen Wright, great-grandniece and great-grandnephew of the Wright brothers, and Col. Patrick Miller, 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander, lay a wreath at the Wright Brothers Memorial on Dec. 17 during the 117th anniversary of the first flight. The memorial overlooks Huffman Prairie, where the Wright brothers taught themselves and others how to fly. U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO/R.J. ORIEZ Col. Patrick Miller, 88th Air Base Wing and in...