NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Successfully Completes First Flight

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. The Ingenuity team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California determined that the flight was successful after receiving data from both the helicopter and the Perseverance Mars rover.

Ingenuity is a technology demonstration. The 19-inch-tall Ingenuity Mars Helicopter contains no science instruments. Instead, the 4-pound rotorcraft will help determine whether future explorations on Mars could be conducted from the air.

Perseverance touched down at Octavia E. Butler Landing with Ingenuity attached to its belly on Feb. 18. The helicopter was deployed to the surface of Jezero Crater on April 3.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

[JAIRONMAIDEN]

Many greetings and blessings to the entire NASA team that made possible the historic flight of the ingenuity helicopter. A big hug from the Iberian Peninsula

[ilovemymel]

Idk about you but this is the coolest thing I've seen in my lifetime

[TheChico]

These are the rocks stars of nerds. Thank God we are blessed to have such brilliant people

[vp]

Standing Ovation for the unsurpassed pros at NASA JPL! I can't get enough of this mighty little helicopter!

[whiskeydawg]

My parents sat me down in front of a small black and white TV in 1962.  We only received one of the three channels well out of Atlanta.  I watched John Glenn in his Mercury capsule blast off on an Atlas rocket.  I was amazed then and I'm still amazed now.  Congratulations NASA and JPL.   We are so proud of you.

[rrqqt.y]

I would cry decades just sit with one of these people

[_benzer]

Mimi you absolute legend... I wanted to hug her the whole breakdown !!!

[generalcodsworth]

It's hard to imagine just how much this single flight will help humanity as we explore and colonize mars. From monitoring large systems with a drone's eye view of everything, maybe even craft capable of lifting payloads and carrying them between locations, perhaps one day vehicles that can carry humans long distances accross the martian surface, and all of it will be traceable back to this one little drone that made a little hop just to prove that it's possible

[saikatbohidar]

Congratulations to all team members of the project from India. Wonderful.

[samREDICEbunny]

Like I said before this video deserves more than a billion views.

[AuditRecon]

That has to be one of the greatest feats ever preformed in my lifetime. How will the media report this?

[ManjulaD]

I first saw Mimi on the day perseverance landed, and saw how excited she was to fly this thing.
Congratulations Mimi and the Ingenuity team.
You made history ❤️

[kolakbanana]

Congratulation NASA and JPL!! the world is proud with your achievement! really amazing! - from Indonesia

[patrickoneill]

Congrats Ingenuity! You've Made History!!! 👍

[samuelhumphreys]

Congratulations to all the great engineers whose work on that project. Excellent job!! Nice results!!

[_Dawg_]

🚁 wings are fairies, runways are for models 🚁 rotorhead for life 🤟🏽

[kenjiokura]

Thank you for saying "Human beings..." Mimi. Space exploration is an earth-wide, hopefully one day interplanetary, endeavor. You and your team's energy is contagious.

[headcrab]

I love that NASA is back at its core values. The team is very internatioal. Science for the best for mankind.

[RSpudieD]

Congratulations!!! That's an awesome achievement!

[Baxter]

Это исторический момент! Браво! Браво всем тем инженерам, которые трудились над этой програмой!