Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center plan to launch the first plane on Mars. The estimated tab: $48 million. The Ames team, has already designed a robot plane and dubbed it Kitty Hawk. It would be carried to the Red Planet like the Mars Rover but launched in the air, as its spacecraft parachutes through the atmosphere. Kitty Hawk would carry cameras and sensors like those used and relay images far more detailed than those from satellites.