{"id":121720,"date":"2021-04-18T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/mars-helicopter-flight-test-promises-wright-brothers-moment-for-nasa"},"modified":"2021-04-18T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:22:17","slug":"mars-helicopter-flight-test-promises-wright-brothers-moment-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/mars-helicopter-flight-test-promises-wright-brothers-moment-for-nasa","title":{"rendered":"Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-helicopter-flight-test-promises-wright-brothers-moment-for-nasa3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.<\/p>\n<p>Landmark achievements in science and technology can seem humble by conventional measurements. The Wright Brothers\u2019 first controlled flight in the world of a motor-driven airplane, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903 covered just 120 feet (37 meters) in 12 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>A modest debut is likewise in store for NASA\u2019s twin-rotor, solar-powered helicopter Ingenuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Landmark achievements in science and technology can seem humble by conventional measurements. The Wright Brothers\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121720","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}