Washington D.C.: A student from the Albama High School, Vaneeza Rupani named the spacecraft that will attempt NASA’s first powered flight on another planet.Destined to become the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet, NASA’s Mars Helicopter officially has received a new name: Ingenuity.Vaneeza Rupani, a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in…
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Representational image) | Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Text Size: Alabama student names NASA’s Mars helicopter ‘Ingenuity’ NASA’s Mars helicopter — destined to be the first aircraft to attempt powered flights on another planet — has been named ‘Ingenuity’. The name was picked during NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest. From…
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An Alabama high school student named NASA’s first Mars helicopter that will be deployed to the red planet later this summer.Ingenuity, the name submitted by Vaneeza Rupani, was selected for the 4 pound (1.8 kilograms) solar-powered helicopter, NASA said in a statement on Wednesday. The name coined by the junior at Tuscaloosa County High School…
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Home News Science & Astronomy We now know what to call the helicopter that will become the first craft to ply the skies of an alien world.The little chopper that will launch to the Red Planet this summer with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover Perseverance finally has a name: Ingenuity, agency officials announced today (April 29).The…
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