Now uncocooned from its protective carbon-fiber shield, the helicopter is being readied for its next steps. NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the ...

Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

NASA made history with a successful first flight of its experimental helicopter on Mars, the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet. The American space agency made its first controlled ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The aerial exploration of Mars has begun. NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lifted off on the Red ...

NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. The triumph was ...

NASA has performed a rigorous technical analysis of the Ingenuity helicopter’s final flight on Mars. The experimental rotorcraft was the first to achieve powered flight on another celestial body. On ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA said on Thursday its Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity, the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world, has been grounded for good after flying ...

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Nearly a year after NASA's Ingenuity helicopter crash landed on Mars following an extended, remarkably successful mission, engineers have determined the most likely culprit: Flight over sand drifts so ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made history again Thursday with another epic Red Planet flight. This time, controllers on Earth completed a more challenging flight by climbing to 16 feet and tilting ...

Humanity's first Wright Brothers moment on another planet will happen in April. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first powered flight on Mars no earlier than April 8, according to NASA.