NASA makes history with the "first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet," Mars. RELATED: https://youtu.be/7KTtZchV7eU The Mars Ingenuity helicopter made its first successful flight on Monday – the first powered flight on another planet. The 4-pound craft rose to a height of nearly 10 feet, hovered for about 39 seconds and rotated 100 degrees toward the waiting Perseverance rover before landing, NASA said. The flight took place at about 12:33 p.m. Mars time, 3:34 a.m. EDT on Earth. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory broadcast reception of test results live at about 6:46 a.m. EDT. Sixty days after landing on Mars, Perseverance recorded Ingenuity as it made – in a test evoking the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 – its historic flight. » Subscribe to USA TODAY: http://bit.ly/1xa3XAh » Watch more on this and other topics from USA TODAY: https://bit.ly/2XO9NvN » USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR. #NASA #Mars #perseverance