# Aeronautics Honors Ingenuity 

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft to fly within another planet’s atmosphere, is ending its mission at the Red Planet. Honored to play a part in the technology demonstrator’s success, NASA’s aeronautical innovators congratulates its agency colleagues and offers this special report in tribute.

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## The historic journey of Ingenuity, the first aircraft on another planet, has come to an end. That remarkable helicopter flew higher and farther than we ever imagined and helped NASA do what we do best — make the impossible, possible.

BILL NELSON

NASA Administrator

## After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

Originally designed to perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days, the aircraft operated on the Martian surface for almost three years, performing 72 flights and flying more than 14 times farther than planned.
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# NASA’s Aeronautics Experts Help Prepare Ingenuity to Fly on Mars

So, you want to try flying a helicopter on Mars. You work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California…
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## Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

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# NASA is With You When You Fly, Even on Mars

According to the 1958 law that established NASA, where the first “A” in NASA stands for aeronautics, the agency is…
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## Mars Helicopter Flight Log

The Mars Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has produced the definitive collection of everything you need to know about Ingenuity and its mission,  including interactive graphics, downloadable posters, and the ability to send an electronic postcard to the Mars Helicopter team to say thanks! #ThanksIngenuity
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## NASA Aeronautics on Mars (and Earth)

A collection of links to projects, articles, and STEM resources directly and indirectly related to NASA Aeronautics and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission are available online.
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### **A New Home for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prototype**

The aerial prototype of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here on Dec. 15, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. The prototype, which was the first to demonstrate it was possible to fly in a simulated Mars environment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was donated to the museum on Jan. 26, one day after NASA officially announced the end of the helicopters mission at Mars following its grounding on the Red Planet after indications showed one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage.

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