{"id":121414,"date":"2021-04-11T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T08:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-is-go-for-historic-1st-flight-on-sunday"},"modified":"2021-04-11T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T08:23:40","slug":"nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-is-go-for-historic-1st-flight-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-is-go-for-historic-1st-flight-on-sunday","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is \u2018go\u2019 for historic 1st flight on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-is-go-for-historic-1st-flight-on-sunday.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity\u2019s first helicopter on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html\">Mars<\/a> has been cleared for a historic takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>Ingenuity will take to the skies above Jezero Crater Sunday (April 11) on a 40-second flight \u2014 roughly four times longer than the Wright brothers\u2019 first flight on Earth over 117 years ago. The first data, successful or not, should flow back to Earth on Monday (April 12) around 3:30 a.m. EDT (0830 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity\u2019s first helicopter on Mars has been cleared for a historic takeoff. Ingenuity will take to the skies above Jezero Crater Sunday (April 11) on a 40-second flight \u2014 roughly four times longer than the Wright brothers\u2019 first flight on Earth over 117 years ago. The first data, successful or not, should flow back to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}