The First Aircraft to Fly on Another Planet Will be a Mars Helicopter

Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect the flight model (the actual vehicle going to the Red Planet), inside the Space Simulator, a 25-foot-wide (7.62-meter-wide) vacuum chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

When NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft launches it will include a helicopter designed to fly only on Mars and will be