How to watch the Mars helicopter Ingenuity's first flight online

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By Elizabeth Howell a day ago

Ingenuity is ready to attempt its first flight April 19.

The first helicopter is expected to attempt the first-ever flight on Mars on Monday (April 19) and you can follow it all online. The flight has been delayed since April 11.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity flight coverage will begins at 6:15 a.m. EDT (1015 GMT) on Monday, with a post-flight press conference at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT). You can watch that live on Space.com and on this page, courtesy of NASA TV, or directly from NASA Television, the NASA smartphone app, the agency's website and several social media platforms (such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's YouTube and Facebook channels.)

Ingenuity, which rode to Mars on the belly of the Perseverance rover, is expected to take to the air at 3:30 a.m. EDT (0730 GMT) on Monday, but the data from that flight won't arrive on Earth until several hours later. NASA's 6:15 a.m. EDT livestream will cover that data's arrival with live views from Ingenuity's control center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-first-flight-how-to-watch

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1. Since I'm up soooo late ( while others are just getting up) I might as well..

stay up another ?55 mins to start catching the data from Ingenuity's hopefully successful flight!

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2. The drone has taken off............

it also has a piece of the Wright Flyer attached to it........

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3. w000t! Yeah, I know about the Weight Bros momento 👍

Such a special leap foward!

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4. Pretty cool, I love science.........

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5. Have loved science since I was a kid

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6. Hear hear.........I had some great science teachers, that is one of the main reasons

why I went into aviation and aerospace..........

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7. Oh areospace! What did you do? I love both Science and The Arts

I wasn't very good at higher marh except geometry, and I think that was because of my high level visual skills as an artist.

What was unremarkable at the time to me in JHS, but latter quite remarkable was I had a black woman science teacher. Liked her.

The yucky thing was when she opened up a container of like "pond water" put droplettes of water on a slide so we could one-celled organisms under the microscope. I moved to the back of the classroom because of the smell till I had to go up there! 😄

The coolest thing I remember was when she got out the water molecular splitting machine! The two balloons on top: the oxygen one filling up twice as fast as the hydrogen one! 👍👍

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8. I worked on the flight line as a mechanic, I have built over 100 planes and did some work on the

space shuttle, and worked in the engineering department for a plane manufacturer and was a aircraft inspector.......what I thought was amazing was watching a space craft take off from a standing start and travel over 17,500 miles per hour to break the escape velocity of this planet to orbit into space and right now the achievement on Mars's is amazing.......

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9. 100 planes! The space 💖 shuttle!

True about rockets breaking Earth's gravity!

And 💖 l'il Ingenuity! (And all the Mars 💖 Rovers!)