Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The tiny Mars Helicopter Ingenuity has flown into our hearts. Project manager MiMi Aung and her team may have made it look easy, but Aung explains why it was anything but. Bruce Betts has tips for viewing the upcoming total lunar eclipse. Planetary Radio t-shirts are back as prizes in the space trivia contest! And we’ve got space headlines from The Downlink, our weekly newsletter. Discover more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/mimi-aung-ingenuity-update

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0:00.0	The Mars Helicopters Minion, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:09.4	Welcome.
0:10.4	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar
0:15.2	system and beyond.
0:17.5	Many thought it couldn't be done, but the team at the Jet Propulsion Lab and their partners
0:22.5	kept at it for years.
0:24.9	We've seen the result.
0:26.3	As we published this week's episode, ingenuity has completed five flights on the red planet,
0:32.6	each of them more challenging than the last.
0:35.7	Mimi will tell us about the many obstacles they had to overcome to achieve this success,
0:41.0	along with what she hopes will come next.
0:43.8	Wanna win a snazzy Planetary Radio T-shirt?
0:47.4	Your chance has finally returned with this week's What's Up segment.
0:51.4	Bruce Wetz also has pointers for viewing the upcoming total lunar eclipse.
0:57.2	You may still have time to register for the first Mars Innovation Forum from our friends
1:02.2	at Explore Mars.
1:03.5	I'll be there to moderate a session about building and creating this stuff.
1:08.2	Humans will someday need out there on Fourth Rock.
1:11.9	Details are at exploremars.org.
1:15.8	Bye-bye, Bennu!
1:17.2	Osiris Rex captured one last image of the asteroid it has been orbiting as the spacecraft
1:23.4	began its journey back to Earth, carrying a precious cargo of asteroid material.
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