Lifts off the surface of the Red Planet, reaching an altitude of about 10-feet, where it hovers, turns and lands softly in an autonomous flight that lasts 30 seconds. Ap– NASA Flies Ingenuity for First Time on Mars – NASA successfully flies its four-pound helicopter from the surface of Mars, the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet.EDT, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Ap– NASA Launches SHIELDS Mission Atop Brant IX Sounding Rocket – NASA’s Spatial Heterodyne Interferometric Emission Line Dynamics Spectrometer (SHIELDS) mission launches at 4:30 a.m.The decision is made following a ground emergency on April 8 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. Tim Ryan orders a safety stand-down for the service’s entire B1-B bomber fleet. Ap– US Air Force Grounds Entire Fleet of B1-B Bombers – Commander of the US Air Force’s Global Strike Command Gen.Ap– Perseverance’s MOXIE Instrument Converts Martian Carbon Dioxide Into Oxygen For First Time – NASA's Perseverance rover uses its Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument to generate oxygen from the thin, carbon dioxide-heavy Martian atmosphere for the first time, demonstrating technology that could help astronauts breathe as well as help propel the rockets that would get them back home to Earth.Ap– Rule Allowing UAVs to Fly Over People and at Night Go into Effect – Final rules announced by the FAA in December 2020 officially take effect allowing for small drones to fly over people and at night.The helicopter reaches a height of 16 feet and lasts 59.1 seconds. EDT, Ingenuity lifts off from the Jezero crater on Mars for its second flight on the Red Planet.
Ap– Ingenuity Makes Second Flight on Mars – At 5:33 a.m.EDT from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center kicking off SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission, carrying four astronauts – NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japanese spaceflyer Akihiko Hoshide – on a 24-hour flight to the International Space Station. Ap– Crew-2 Mission Lifts Off – A SpaceX Crew Dragon launches at 5:49 a.m.
The History of Flight from Around the World
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