Ingenuity, NASA’s small helicopter, succeeds in its first flight to Mars

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For the first time in history, a spacecraft designed by human beings flew to another planet: Ingenuity took off, climbed to a height of three meters, hovered about thirty seconds before landing.

Almost one hundred and eighteen years after the first modest flights (a few tens of meters) of a motorized vehicle – the plane of the Americans Orville and Wilbur Wright – NASA made history by succeeding in the same thing, but on Mars. On Monday, April 19, his small Ingenuity helicopter, deposited on the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover on which he was embarked, successfully completed his inaugural flight. Like that of the Wright brothers in December 1903, this first attempt was most modest: take-off, climb to a height of 3 meters, hovering of about thirty seconds, descent and landing.

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