Nasa's Mars helicopter completes first powered flight on another planet
The team of engineers and scientists behind the Ingenuity celebrated as the data came in. Lead Engineer MiMi Aung said: "We can now say that humans have flown a rotorcraft on another planet. "We've been talking so long about our Wright brothers moment on Mars, and here it is," she said. The flight plan involved the helicopter climbing to three metres above the surface and hovering for 30 seconds in the thin Martian atmosphere, before landing back on the surface. In all, Ingenuity logged a total of 39.1 seconds of flight. The Ingenuity helicopter was designed to prove that flight on Mars is po...
Source: thenationalnews.com
