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Ingenuity Mars helicopter: The historic journey to fly on another planet


Ingenuity Mars helicopter: The historic journey to fly on another planet
CNN
3 days ago
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
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The Mars helicopter team is seen outside of NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on December 3, 2018.
When the Ingenuity helicopter takes flight this month, it will be a Wright brothers moment on Mars. This first powered, controlled flight on another planet has been years in the making and it has roots in the first such flight on Earth.
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Hitching a ride on the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Sojourner rover arrived on July 4, 1997.
It has been 117 years since Orville Wright took flight in Flyer 1 for 12 seconds on a historic December day in 1903 at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In the image captured by John Daniels, a member of the US Life-Saving Station at the site, Orville s brother Wilbur can be seen running alongside the aircraft. During the fourth and final fl ....

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