{"id":410204,"date":"2021-04-12T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410204"},"modified":"2021-04-12T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:53:54","slug":"nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-to-make-first-flight-attempt-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-to-make-first-flight-attempt-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity to make first flight attempt on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity&#8217;s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) rotorcraft is expected to take off from Mars&#8217; Jezero Crater on Sunday at 12 <\/p>\n<p>Mission control specialists at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California expect to receive the first data from the first flight attempt the following morning at around 4:15 a.m. EDT (1:15 a.m. PDT). NASA TV will air live coverage of the team as they receive the data, with commentary beginning at 3:30 a.m. EDT (12:30 a.m. PDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity&#8217;s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) rotorcraft is expected to take off from Mars&#8217; Jezero Crater on Sunday at 12 Mission control specialists at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California expect to receive the first data from the first flight attempt the following morning at around 4:15 a.m. EDT (1:15 a.m. PDT). NASA TV will air live coverage of the team as they receive the data, with commentary beginning at 3:30 a.m. EDT (12:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}