Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Last week, NASA decommissioned the Ingenuity Helicopter—the first man-made craft to fly on another planet. Loay Elbasyouni is a Palestinian American engineer who was part of the team that designed it. In 2021 he recorded a StoryCorps Virtual interview with his brother, Heissam, about growing up in Gaza, and the moment the copter first took flight.