{"id":411286,"date":"2021-04-20T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411286"},"modified":"2021-04-20T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:15:47","slug":"nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-takes-flight-1st-for-another-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-takes-flight-1st-for-another-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes flight, 1st for another planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. <\/p>\n<p>The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kg) copter named Ingenuity, in fact, carried a bit of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, which made similar history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,&#8221; project manager MiMi Aung announced to her team. <\/p>\n<p>Flight controllers in California confirmed Ingenuity&#8217;s brief hop after receiving data via the Perseverance rover, which stood watch more than 200 feet (65 metres) away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kg) copter named Ingenuity, in fact, carried a bit of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, which made similar history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. &#8220;We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,&#8221; project manager MiMi Aung announced to her team. Flight controllers in California confirmed Ingenuity&#8217;s brief hop after receiving data via the Perseverance rover, which [&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-411286","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\/411286","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=411286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}