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Engineer Loay Elbasyouni was part of the team that created an innovative type of helicopter that flew over the surface of Mars in April 2021. The helicopter, named Ingenuity, performed the first ever controlled flight by an aircraft on another planet. But Loay grew up a long way from NASA and the US. He is from the Gaza Strip, part of the Palestinian Territories, and lived through the first Intifada as a child. He tells Emily Webb about the many obstacles he had to overcome to be part of that historic moment in space exploration.

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Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Rebecca Vincent

Picture: Loay Elbasyouni with a test model of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter
Credit: Erric Wright

Published on Wednesday, 1st September 2021.

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