Close NASA recently announced its experimental Ingenuity Mars helicopter is scheduled to take its much-awaited initial test flight on the Red Planet this coming Sunday. An NBC News report said that if the scheduled first flight succeeds, it will be the first powered, controlled flight piloted on another planet. In connection to this space development, the report said that on a flat, barren expanse Martian real estate, a small helicopter is poised to create a history in the aviation industry. According to Ingenuity helicopter's project manager Mimi Aung, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, the moment that their team has been waiting for "is almost here."