NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter makes history with first powered, controlled flight on another planet

NASA made history Monday with its Ingenuity Mars helicopter making the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet. 

The whole flight in the Jezero Crater flight zone was expected to last around 40 seconds, with Ingenuity lifting off and climbing at a rate of 3 feet per second, rotating, taking images with a 13-megapixel camera and hovering at 10 feet above the surface. 

“Ingenuity has performed its first flight — the first flight of a powered aircraft on another…