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October 09, 2021

Mars Helo Chief Keynotes At NBAA

Speaker Shares The Future of Aviation

Teddy Tzanetos, Operations Lead for the ingenuity Mars Helicopter at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will be a featured speaker for the Day One Keynote on October 12 at NBAA’s BACE in Las Vegas, Nevada. His team sent their small helicopter, the Ingenuity, aboard the Mars Perseverance rover on a 36 million mile journey for what they had thought would be a short 30-minute proof-of-concept demonstration. After enduring a hard, bone-shaking landing, the flyweight helicopter took off for the first time in April. Upon liftoff it broke records as the first extraterrestrial powered flight, only to soldier onwards, beyond any initial expectations.

A Number Of Astronauts Have Completed Their Training Yet Spent Years Waiting For A Slot To Launch

Astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada have been reassigned to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the ISS. Part of the Commercial Crew Program, Crew-5 is expected to launch by fall 2022 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A in the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They will join the crew members already in space for a long duration stay as they conduct activities aboard the station. Mann and Cassada were previously assigned to missions on NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test and Starliner-1 mission, but Boeing’s continuing delays in their Starliner program have pushed back that launch until 2022. OTF-1, the initial uncrewed test