NASA plans rescheduled Mars Ingenuity helicopter flight for April 19
It's almost time for the Ingenuity to take flight. Hopefully for real this time!
The Mars helicopter will take its inaugural journey into the skies above Mars "no earlier than Monday, April 19," NASA has confirmed. The current timing for the flight — which could certainly change — is set for 3:30 a.m. ET in the wee hours of Monday morning.
This is only the latest confirmed flight time for a mission that was originally scheduled to launch on April 11NASA instituted a delay just one day before the originally scheduled launch was set to happen, moving the timing to "no earlier than April 14." That date obviously didn't work out, either. Read more...
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