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First flight on Mars? Ingenuity helicopter preps for takeoff – Salon
If it succeeds, it will be the first powered-controlled flight on another planet
In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew a plane for 12 seconds, 120 feet in the air, on what is now known as the first powered-controlled flight on Earth. Now, 118 years later, the first powered-controlled attempt at a flight on another planet is about to take place.
According to NASA, Ingenuity — the four-pound rotorcraft attached to Perseverance — is on its way to its “airfield” on Mars.
The space agency announced that its target for its first takeoff attempt will happen no earlier than April…
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