Commentary: The Imagination Of The Wright Brothers Goes To Mars
/ Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect the flight model, inside the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 1, 2019. NASA let us know, after Perseverance had landed on Mars, that a small piece of fabric from the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer has made the journey too -- and is attached to a small helicopter which is going to fly over the Martian surface maybe as soon as this weekend. Aviation commentator Dan Patterson has some thoughts. Who could have imagined that an artifact from Dayton and the Wright bro...
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