“You can now expect follow-ons to expand that technology to actual science missions that use flight.” Cook is amazed that the team could build something so light and powerful at the same time.“Ingenuity was a technology demonstration,” said Alex Hayes, an associate professor and the director of Cornell University’s Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science in Ithaca, New York. When it comes to the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, Ms. In her role in the media office, she gets to help figure out how stories about first-of-their-kind accomplishments are told. As the child of immigrants, she has always been interested in American history and asking the question, “What does it mean to be American?” Working for NASA’s news and media team means she gets a front-row seat at this history in the making.

Jia-Rui Cook is the News Events & Projects Supervisor at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and will be your host for this episode. His favorite part of his job is knowing that he is working on something that will ultimately be on another planet to help humanity understand our universe better than before. Mehta grew up surrounded by science fiction through books and television, these stories reinforced the notion that possibilities are endless with science. Nishant Mehta is the Deputy Lead for the Dragonfly Mobility System at John’s Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. Lam has an exciting vision for how aerial vehicles could be used for exploration in the future. He is an avid frisbee player and has a family that is expecting their second baby soon.

Lam always had an interest in math and science growing up, and enjoys getting to work on one-of-a-kind missions that are helping us to learn more about the universe. Johnny Lam is an Ingenuity Mars Helicopter pilot at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Join experts from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team and upcoming Dragonfly mission to learn about the future of extraterrestrial flight. This historic flight on Mars has implications for how we will explore other worlds. On April 19, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter became the first spacecraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world.

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