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The Man Behind NASA’s Wright Brothers Moment On Mars Is IIT-Madras Alumnus Bob Balaram by Bhaswati Guha Majumder - Apr 21, 2021 06:28 AM J. Bob Balaram Snapshot Since his childhood, he was fascinated by rockets and the interest in space grew more than ever when he heard about the Apollo Moon mission on the radio. History was created on 19 April when NASA’s ‘Ingenuity’ helicopter took a flight above the dust surface on Mars, making it the first powered flight on another planet. While the flight success on Mars — NASA's Wright Brothers Moment —turned into one of t...

The idea of Ingenuity was dreamed up decades ago Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory react to data showing that the helicopter completed its first flight on April 19. JPL-Caltech/NASA The dream of Ingenuity began in the 1990s when Jet Propulsion Laboratory robotics technologist Bob Balaram heard Ilan Kroo, a Stanford University professor of aeronautics and astronautics, speak at a conference about a "mesicopter," or a miniature airborne vehicle for Earth. Balaram could imagine it on Mars. He proposed one f...