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The Globe and Mail Marcia Dunn Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer The Associated Press NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph was hailed as a Wright brothers moment. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) copter even carried a bit of w...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter. (Photo by NASA) Published April 11. 2021 1:47AM  Christian Davenport, The Washington Post They landed a car-size rover on Mars, and the brilliant, if cheeky, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory even snuck a coded message into the parachute used to slow it down for a soft landing that read, "Dare Mighty Things."  Now comes what the space agency says will be a "Wright brothers" moment on Mars: the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet. It won't fly far, just to the height of a basketball rim and down, a short hop that should take about 40...

NASA is preparing to fly the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, in an otherworldly Wright brothers moment Christian Davenport Replay Video UP NEXT They landed a car-size rover on Mars, and the brilliant, if cheeky, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory even snuck a coded message into the parachute used to slow it down for a soft landing that read, “Dare Mighty Things.” Now comes what the space agency says will be a “Wright brothers” moment on Mars: the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet. It won’t fly far, just to the height of a basketball ...

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The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.