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Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight
April 20, 2021
PASADENA, California, April 20 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news on April 19, 2021:

The small rotorcraft made history, hovering above Jezero Crater, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another planet is possible.

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 Souther . . .

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