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Watch: Nasa’s Mars helicopter completes first powered flight on another planet – The National
Technology demonstrator delivers ‘Wright brothers moment’ on the Red Planet
Nasas Ingenuity helicopter completed its first flight on Mars on Monday, data from the mission showed, in a landmark moment for space exploration.
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the helicopter was designed and built, endured a nervous wait as telemetry from the helicopter arrived on Earth after it travelled about 289 million kilometres from Mars.
The data showed that Ingenuity had lifted off from the surface of Mars as planned, completing a task many compared to the first powered…
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