{"id":687428,"date":"2021-04-19T06:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=687428"},"modified":"2021-04-19T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T10:59:33","slug":"success-nasas-ingenuity-makes-first-powered-flight-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=687428","title":{"rendered":"Success! NASA&#039;s Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pia24466_mars_helicopter_wide-3f4be0e8cd396fe073077f35aedf72b5db98a9da.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of how NASA has planned the Ingenuity Helicopter to fly over Mars.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tiny helicopter took off and hovered briefly \u2014 the first such flight on another planet. The Perseverance rover kept tabs on the mission from a viewing point about 60 yards away.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/npr-rss-pixel-4.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/19\/985588253\/success-nasas-ingenuity-makes-first-powered-flight-on-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Success! NASA&#8217;s Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny helicopter took off and hovered briefly \u2014 the first such flight on another planet. The Perseverance rover kept tabs on the mission from a viewing point about 60&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}