"You Wouldn't Believe What I Just Saw:" Ingenuity Helicopter Flies Successfully on Mars

NASA pulled off a Wright Brothers moment on Mars early today by successfully flying the tiny Ingenuity helicopter for approximately 40 seconds. "We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet," said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity's lead engineer, speaking to her colleagues gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California …