NASA makes history with 1st flight of Ingenuity helicopter on Mars
NASA makes history with 1st flight of Ingenuity helicopter on Mars By Jordan Smith NASA team cheers as helicopter makes 1st powered flight on another planet The NASA JPL team cheers as they receive video data from the rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flight. NASA made history with a successful first flight of its experimental helicopter on Mars, the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet. The American space agency made its first controlled flight on the red planet early Monday, though the stream of data confirming its success was received a few hours later. "Altimeter data...