Out Of This World: Building Helicopters To Explore The Solar System

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 6:31 p.m.

b'NASA\\u2019s Mars Perseverance rover launched last week carrying a stow-away -- a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity. If it works, it will be the first helicopter on another world and engineers and scientists are eagerly awaiting the results of the test flight, calling it Mars\\u2019 Wright Brother moment. Ingenuity might be the first, but it certainly won\\u2019t be the last. Work is underway on another off-planet helicopter named Dragonfly, with a plan to send it to Saturn\\u2019s moon Titan in 2027.'