Written by Rachelle Haughn
AMA member helped design the first model aircraft to fly on Mars
As seen in the July 2021 issue of Model Aviation.
Bonus Video
01. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter extends vertically into place after being rotated outward from its horizontal position on the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 29, 2021, the 38th Martian day or sol, of the mission. This image was taken by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and…