Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Buzz Aldrin—Apollo 11 lunar module pilot and the second man, after Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong, to walk on Earth’s moon—will receive an honorary appointment to the rank of brigadier general during a ceremony on 05 May at Los Angeles Air Force Base.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is a small robotic rotorcraft currently operating on Mars. On 13 April 2023, Ingenuity made its fiftieth flight, thereby marking 728 days of flightworthiness on barren, inhospitable Mars—all the while without maintenance or even so much as a cleaning.
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