WATCH LIVE: NASA attempts first helicopter flight on Mars

NASA plans to attempt the first flight on another planet at approximately 3:30 a.m. EDT (12:30 a.m. PDT). NASA's mission control will receive data from the Ingenuity helicopter to study the flight attempt. NASA's live broadcast begins at 6:15 a.m. EDT.

 

Russian Soyuz MS-18 Launch | Союз МС-18 запуска

 The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft carrying Russian and American crew was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from a spaceport in Kazakhstan on Friday (9th April 2021).

The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome was streamed live by the Russian space agency (Roscosmos). Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin and Dmitry Rogozin, director general of the agency, watched the launching together.

The spacecraft lifted off at 1.42 p.m. local time (0742 GMT) from the spaceport and left the orbit after nearly nine minutes. It is expected to dock at the ISS after around three-and-a-half hour journey.