March 24, 20215 yr The swatch made the 300 million-mile journey to Mars with the blessing of the Wright brothers' great-grandniece and great-grandnephew, said park curator Steve Lucht. Ingenuity will attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet no sooner than April 8. It will mark a "Wright brothers' moment," noted Bobby Braun, director for planetary science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/part-of-wright-brothers-1st-airplane-on-nasa-s-mars-chopper-1.5359266
March 24, 20215 yr Only 15 feet altitude planned and five attempts. Who knows what they might do for the fifth attempt though. Won't be any more flights after that, so it could be something interesting. Edited March 24, 20215 yr by martin-w
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