NASA names copter test site for Wright Brothers
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...
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