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A small helicopter made the first powered flight on another planet, on Mars in 2021.

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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flew on Mars on 19 April 2021 and went on to make 72 flights, far more than the five originally planned.

Source: Ingenuity (helicopter) (Wikipedia)

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