<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 21px;" class="">Hi all, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 21px;" class=""> Good morning from Florida…I hope you were able to share this with your students/family….it was amazing to think we were watching something very special and the beginning of a spectacular 30 days of the Ingenuity program on Mars…this was basically a test to see if it could, in fact, “fly” on Mars…everything went perfectly….the videos of the flights ahead should be spectacular…</font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="font-size: 21px;" class="">The Space X Crew 2 mission is on track for a 6:11am (06:00) launch this Thursday…I hope you will register to be a part of this mission and get your boarding pass to show you are “on board”…also with this program you can accumulate “frequent flyer miles” and continue to follow events on the ISS…I will be on KSC for the launch, escorting “foreign nationals” which will enable me to have a wonderful view…I will try to share it with you ...</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 21px;" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white;">we have to stay positive and always be thankful…</span> remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart) …hugs & smiles... :-) :-) STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 571.953125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit;">NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight</h1></div></div><section id="ember28" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ncam_flight10000000.pbin_.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="9BC243F3-2F42-4845-85C7-FA830F720382" src="cid:377AC7B7-DF4D-4C81-BC89-41F4A7D16B33" class=""></font></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="">NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this shot as it hovered over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. It used its navigation camera, which autonomously tracks the ground during flight.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="">Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech</font></div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><a href="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""></a></font></div></div></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT).</font></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“Ingenuity is the latest in a long and storied tradition of NASA projects achieving a space exploration goal once thought impossible,” said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. “The <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/60th/x-15/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">X-15</a> was a pathfinder for the space shuttle. Mars Pathfinder and its Sojourner rover did the same for three generations of Mars rovers. We don’t know exactly where Ingenuity will lead us, but today’s results indicate the sky – at least on Mars – may not be the limit.”</font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">The solar-powered helicopter first became airborne at 3:34 a.m. EDT (12:34 a.m. PDT) – 12:33 Local Mean Solar Time (Mars time) – a time the Ingenuity team determined would have optimal energy and flight conditions. Altimeter data indicate Ingenuity climbed to its prescribed maximum altitude of 10 feet (3 meters) and maintained a stable hover for 30 seconds. It then descended, touching back down on the surface of Mars after logging a total of 39.1 seconds of flight. Additional details on the test are expected in upcoming downlinks.</font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><b class="">go to this link to see the flight….</b></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><font color="#ff2600" face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight" class="">https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight</a> </font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Ingenuity’s initial flight demonstration was autonomous – piloted by onboard guidance, navigation, and control systems running algorithms developed by the team at JPL. Because data must be sent to and returned from the Red Planet over hundreds of millions of miles using orbiting satellites and NASA’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/services/networks/deep_space_network/about" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Deep Space Network</a>, Ingenuity cannot be flown with a joystick, and its flight was not observable from Earth in real time.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen announced the name for the Martian airfield on which the flight took place.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“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,” Zurbuchen said. “While these two iconic moments in aviation history may be separated by time and 173 million miles of space, they now will forever be linked. As an homage to the two innovative bicycle makers from Dayton, this first of many airfields on other worlds will now be known as <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Wright Brothers Field</strong>, in recognition of the ingenuity and innovation that continue to propel exploration.”</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Ingenuity’s chief pilot, Håvard Grip, announced that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – the United Nations’ civil aviation agency – presented NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration with official ICAO designator IGY, call-sign INGENUITY.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">These details will be included officially in the next edition of ICAO’s publication <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure-web.cisco.com%2F1zuRjtBmX0A-hrAEKF_qDnSVfJszxhnRAbh3kVVpJ2Bwc4Vvg1OJiDXuh1yE1hghiQVYYhVea0uYIKQ9tjpmKjtx93TYsdGNiisgFs1uVsb201MTfT1_Ka2SGklU5O9cCYPV3f7lPV7mmwTvRTaKn69vrNH8VEv2Mbt1YWHAxSyLMGUYD014ukj4n5vJLKVQwVEQaMHBdgbSvW3R-Io55LrgVZ0Zk3luNcb_4jcBNXIXBTlA_9qrS_rOSTKSSvsXdCrhAwlbyzsm5hMLb8qIt07v9r8vhtHjd40DC6PlR9RmK-SkZQkj7nmL4Z15pVL7P%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.icao.int%252Fen%252Fdesignators-for-aircraft-operating-agencies-aeronautical-authorities-and-services-doc-8585&data=04%7C01%7Cgrey.hautaluoma-1%40nasa.gov%7Cc65792190d62443ff25808d902d0a562%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C637543917426185431%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uKuCNLPDTJ8g2GyblLdEPiCyn9ea4Cd0l%2FK9VmWij7Y%3D&reserved=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services</a>. The location of the flight has also been given the ceremonial location designation JZRO for Jezero Crater.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">As one of NASA’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/main/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">technology demonstration projects</a>, the 19.3-inch-tall (49-centimeter-tall) Ingenuity Mars Helicopter contains no science instruments inside its tissue-box-size fuselage. Instead, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) rotorcraft is intended to demonstrate whether future exploration of the Red Planet could include an aerial perspective.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">This first flight was full of unknowns. The Red Planet has a significantly lower gravity – one-third that of Earth’s – and an extremely thin atmosphere with only 1% the pressure at the surface compared to our planet. This means there are relatively few air molecules with which Ingenuity’s two 4-foot-wide (1.2-meter-wide) rotor blades can interact to achieve flight. The helicopter contains unique components, as well as off-the-shelf-commercial parts – many from the smartphone industry – that were tested in deep space for the first time with this mission.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“The Mars Helicopter project has gone from ‘blue sky’ feasibility study to workable engineering concept to achieving the first flight on another world in a little over six years,” said Michael Watkins, director of JPL. “That this project has achieved such a historic first is testimony to the innovation and doggedness of our team here at JPL, as well as at NASA’s Langley and Ames Research Centers, and our industry partners. It’s a shining example of the kind of technology push that thrives at JPL and fits well with NASA’s exploration goals.”</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Parked about 211 feet (64.3 meters) away at <a href="https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24435" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Van Zyl Overlook</a> during Ingenuity’s historic first flight, the Perseverance rover not only acted as a communications relay between the helicopter and Earth, but also chronicled the flight operations with its cameras. The pictures from the rover’s <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/mastcam-z/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Mastcam-Z</a> and <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/cameras/#NavCams-Engineering-Cameras" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Navcam</a> imagers will provide additional data on the helicopter’s flight. </font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“We have been thinking for so long about having our Wright brothers moment on Mars, and here it is,” said MiMi Aung, project manager of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at JPL. “We will take a moment to celebrate our success and then take a cue from Orville and Wilbur regarding what to do next. History shows they got back to work – to learn as much as they could about their new aircraft – and so will we.”</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Perseverance <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/touchdown-nasas-mars-perseverance-rover-safely-lands-on-red-planet" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">touched down</a> with Ingenuity attached to its belly on Feb. 18. Deployed to the surface of Jezero Crater on April 3, Ingenuity is currently on the 16th sol, or Martian day, of its 30-sol (31-Earth day) flight test window. Over the next three sols, the helicopter team will receive and analyze all data and imagery from the test and formulate a plan for the second experimental test flight, scheduled for no earlier than April 22. If the helicopter survives the second flight test, the Ingenuity team will consider how best to expand the flight profile.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">More About Ingenuity</font></strong></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">JPL, which built Ingenuity, also manages the technology demonstration project for NASA. It is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics, and Space Technology mission directorates. The agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Dave Lavery is the program executive for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, MiMi Aung is the project manager, and Bob Balaram is chief engineer.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">For more information about Ingenuity: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="https://go.nasa.gov/ingenuity-press-kit" class="">https://go.nasa.gov/ingenuity-press-kit</a></span> </strong>and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter" class="">https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter</a></span></strong></font></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><div class="c-entry-content " style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><b class="">get your boarding pass: </b></font><span class="" style="font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4c7kevdk" class="">https://tinyurl.com/4c7kevdk</a></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-style: inherit; 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From left are, Mission Specialist Thomas Pesquet of the (ESA (European Space Agency); Pilot Megan McArthur of NASA; Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA; and Mission Specialist Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Credits: SpaceX</font></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 18px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="font-family: Helvetica; border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"><div class="gl-contains-image"><table class="editor-image" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" class="" width="256" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/008cb7e9701/45d8a8d9-9eb4-4a44-8c20-9efc418a897a.jpg" style="display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="font-family: Helvetica; border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=" editor-text" align="left" valign="top" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px;"><div class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div class="galileo-ap-content-editor text-container"><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class="">You are invited to be a NASA virtual guest for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission. </font></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;">The launch, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is targeted for no earlier than Thursday, April 22, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;">NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission will carry NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur – who will serve as the mission’s spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively – along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who will serve as mission specialists. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;">Click on the registration button below to receive mission updates, interactive opportunities, and a stamp for your NASA virtual passport following launch. 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