Piece of the 1903 Wright Brothers Flyer Getting Ready to Take to the Sky on Mars

Back in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted the first successful sustained and controlled flight of a heavier-than-air contraption. We came to know it as the Flyer, or Kitty Hawk, and for all intents and purposes it is one of the machines that gave birth to the world as we know it today. The Flyer is currently displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a place NASA people seem to be visiting from time to time to tak...