NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter just became the first craft of any kind to fly on another planet.

“Now, 117 years after the Wright brothers succeeded in making the first flight on our planet, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has succeeded in performing this amazing feat on another world,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, said in a news release.

Making space history: The Ingenuity helicopter landed on Mars on February 18 after hitching a ride aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover.

The chopper’s first flight was delayed a couple of times so that NASA could address a testing anomaly and install a software update, but on April 19, Ingenuity finally lifted off.

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