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I’ll bet they worked with my friend who is the Deputy Surface Mission Manager for the rover. He gave us a little presentation of what he worked on, including the little helicopter that is attached to the underside of the rover. Veritasium did a cool video about it a couple years ago. [1]

Kudos to everyone who worked on the project and got it launched during the pandemic!

[1] https://youtu.be/GhsZUZmJvaM

The helicopter is the thing I am MOST excited about!

So everyone says the helicopter would be the first powered flight on another planet.

Wouldn't the Skycrane be considered powered flight?

I suppose you could qualify it as first powered flight using aerodynamic forces for lift. Or first powered flight of a probe, the sky crane isn't a scientific instrument.

Is it your siblings spouse or your spouses sibling?

Company training tells me you are phishing

Wow, please tell us more. What did they work on? Are those technologies ITAR restricted?

skycrane :D