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April 19, 2021 The test flight lasted just about 30 seconds and reached an altitude of about 10 feet off the planet's surface. SHOW TRANSCRIPT NASA made history this morning after the Mars Ingenuity took off from the planet's surface.  It marked the first flight for the four-pound helicopter and the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.  NASA officials are comparing the feat to the Wright Brothers' first flight.  The test flight lasted just about 30 seconds and reached an altitude of about 10 feet off the planet's surface. 

Who Is MiMi Aung? NASA Scientist Tears up Contingency Speech After Ingenuity Flight Success On 4/19/21 at 1:31 PM EDT A NASA scientist was spotted ripping up a contingency speech in celebration after the space agency's Mars Ingenuity helicopter made history on Monday by performing the first-ever controlled, powered flight on another planet. The scientist in question, MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager, has been in charge of the team that developed the experimental vehicle and oversaw its historic first flight on Mars. A NASA livestream showed the moments that the Ingenuity team began receiv...

18 April 2021, 12:20 pm EDT By Mars Ingenuity helicopter  ( Flickr/Kevin Gill ) NASA's highly-anticipated Mars helicopter flight is finally here. The team behind the project spent six years developing Ingenuity, the first aircraft to fly on the Red Planet. Ingenuity's first flight On Monday, Apr. 19, the ultra-lightweight robot will try taking off into Mars' sky and if it succeeds, this maneuver will be the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Accor...

Enlarge Image NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter on April 6, 2021, using the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera located at the end of the rover’s long robotic arm. Perseverance’s selfie with Ingenuity is constructed of 62 individual images, taken in sequence while the rover was looking at the helicopter, then again while looking at the WATSON camera, stitched together once they are sent back to Earth. NASA/UPI/Shutterstock To the delight of social media users, NASA’s Pers...

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino joins ‘America’s Newsroom.’ To the delight of social media users, NASA'sPerseverance rover used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to snap a selfie with the Mars Ingenuity helicopter this week ahead of its historic flight mission. Shown about 13 feet apart in the pictures taken on April 6, 2021, or the 48th Martian day of the mission, the rover used its WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and Engineering) camera on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument. ...