https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jg8xe4/nasa-engineers-nervous-and-excited-as-mars-helicopter-prepares-to-fly > There’s a tiny helicopter sitting on Mars right now, waiting to demonstrate the first powered flight on an extraterrestrial planet. Its name is Ingenuity, and it rode to the red planet in the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which just dropped the small aircraft off onto the Martian surface. > The Ingenuity team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is busy at work getting the aircraft ready for its first flight demonstration, which is currently scheduled to take place sometime next week.