The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is about to make history in the skies of another world

[Admin]

NASA is about to make history on the Red Planet with the first controlled, helicopter flight on another world.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is about to make history in the skies of another world : Read more

 

[Catastrophe]

"This Sunday (April 11), NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is expected to make its first-ever flight on Mars, a historic liftoff for the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) craft. This flight will come 118 years after the Wright Brothers made their first successful powered flight on Earth and 60 years after the first human spaceflight, which was made by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin April 12, 1961."

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Fun fact - There is a small scrap of the Wright Flyer I wing fabric under the solar panel.

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Holds Piece of Wright Brothers History

Secured under Ingenuity's solar panels is a stamp-sized swatch of fabric from the Wright Flyer

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Helio]

It's fun to think that we are finally flying in such a farther frontier. Ingenuity indeed!