NASA'S Ingenuity Helicopter Completes Historic Test Flight On Mars

Shariqua Ahmed
Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:43:01 -0700

NASA made history on April 19, 2021, by conducting the first controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. In what is being described as a "Wright brothers moment," the tissue-box-sized Ingenuity gradually ascended to an altitude of 9.8 feet (3 meters) above the surface of Mars and hovered for 30 seconds before gracefully descending to land on its four legs.