#ICYMI NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. The Ingenuity team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California determined that the flight was successful after receiving data from both the helicopter and the Perseverance Mars rover. Ingenuity is a technology demonstration. The 19-inch-tall Ingenuity Mars Helicopter contains no science instruments. Instead, the 4-pound rotorcraft w

HISTORIC MOMENT: Here is the moment that NASA received the first image of the Ingenuity helicopter after successfully flying for the first time on Mars. This is also the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet. 🚁 🙌🏻 MORE: https://bit.ly/3x6RLqy | FOX 35 Orlando

🚁 A dream takes flight! Today, the Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. 📺 Join us at 2 p.m. EDT (18:00 UTC) for an analysis of Ingenuity’s first flight & what's to come: https://go.nasa.gov/3ansLBX | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration