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2021-04-22 Science & Technology
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The First Flight On Another World Wasn't on Mars. It Was on Venus, 36 Years Ago
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[AirSpaceMag] Cool as it is, Ingenuity does not mark the dawn of extraterrestrial aviation.
The world was thrilled this week as NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter pulled off something truly novel (see video above)—the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. But if you paid close attention, the precise wording of that accomplishment included qualifiers. Like the Wright brothers’ airplane, the Mars helicopter was preceded by balloons. In Ingenuity’s case it was a pair of aerobots that rode along with the Soviet Vega 1 and 2 Venus spacecraft and flew through the Venusian atmosphere in 1985. The episode is recounted in Jay Gallentine’s lively 2016 history of planetary exploration, Infinity Beckoned, from which the following excerpt is adapted. 
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