Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter takes flight on Red Planet

The first test flight of NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter has successfully completed. It becomes the first ever aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet. Telemetry analysis reports the craft as having performed: spin up, take off, flying, hovver, descent, landing, touch down and spin down. You can hear ground control, in the video below, ...

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