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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity successfully completed its historic first flight (CNN) The Ingenuity helicopter has successfully completed its historic flight on Mars and safely landed back on the surface, according to NASA. The first powered, controlled flight on another planet took place at 3:34 a.m. ET. Unlike when the helicopter's ...
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Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars The American space agency has successfully flown a small helicopter on Mars. The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
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Small NASA rocket will study boundary of interstellar space For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from interstellar space. A mission called Spatial Heterodyne Interferometric Emission Line Dynamics Spectrometer (SHIELDS) will lift off from the White Sands ...
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter aced an 'absolutely beautiful flight' on Mars. Here's the video. And we have high-definition documentation of this otherworldly Wright Brothers moment thanks to NASA's Perseverance rover, which recorded the flight from 230 feet (70 m) away using its powerful Mastcam-Z camera system.
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter makes maiden flight on Mars in a "Wright brothers moment" Tipping the scales at just 4 pounds — 1.5 pounds in the lower gravity of Mars — Ingenuity's counter-rotating 4-foot-long rotors, spinning at more than 2,500 rpm, were commanded to change their pitch, "biting" deeper into the thin atmosphere for a liftoff from the ...
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Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew on Mars (Update) In this image from NASA, NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity hovers above the surface of Mars Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, ...
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Follow these guidelines if you're on the roads on Crew-2 launch day As the Space Coast prepares for Thursday's scheduled launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station, officials also are preparing for potential traffic tie-ups. There could be 200,000 or more people coming into Brevard County for Thursday's ...
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How scientists are 'looking' inside asteroids The shape of asteroids such as 243 Ida can reveal information about what they're made of, which can, in turn, tell us more about the formation of the solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS. Asteroids can pose a threat to life on Earth but are also a valuable ...
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Dragon crew rehearses for launch day, first-look weather forecast looks good The four astronauts, led by veteran NASA commander Shane Kimbrough, will fly with a Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. Kimbrough and NASA crewmate Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide of Japan, and Thomas ...
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NASA celebrates first historic helicopter flight on Mars NASA officials received telemetry from Mars confirming the successful test flight early Monday. Engineers gathered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory broke out in applause as data and imagery showed the Ingenuity helicopter accomplished its first flight as ...
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