Parachutes being developed for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner undergo a reliability test using a "dart" in place of the crew capsule. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — An incident involving a test of parachutes ...

A scene from a video released by SpaceX Nov. 3 showing the latest test of the Mark 3 parachutes for its Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX said Nov. 3 that it has now carried ...

Parachute design, development, and testing for planets beyond Earth is very similar to those designed for Earth. First, we pick a parachute type or shape based on the expected speed of the probe when ...

Parachute Market, the delightfully uncorporate Los Angeles design fair and bazaar, returns to the downtown arts district this weekend with a new venue and an expanded roster of vendors. The fifth ...

X-ray-based experiments will simulate -- in microscopic detail -- spacecraft parachute fabric performance in the extreme conditions of other planets' atmospheres. As skydivers well know, it's a good ...

Researchers Cutler Phillippe, Francesco Panerai, and Laura Villafañe Roca of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology explored the fiber-scale characteristics of parachute textiles ...

What goes up must come down, so Boeing's Starliner capsule returns to Earth tomorrow after a short stay at the International Space Station. It's a test mission before NASA gives the company the go ...

LOS ANGELES -- The skies off the Hawaiian island of Kauai will be a stand-in for Mars as NASA prepares to launch a saucer-shaped vehicle in an experimental flight designed to land heavy loads on the ...

Subtract a few computer monitors and the company logo, and you’d step inside Parachute’s new Los Angeles headquarters thinking you were in someone’s modern mansion. For founder, CEO, and design ...

NASA and SpaceX are examining parachutes used for landing the Dragon capsule after back-to-back splashdowns saw one parachute lag the others. A SpaceX capsule carrying crew had one parachute inflate ...

For an engineer, there's perhaps no greater feeling than to be given a problem and then devising a successful solution. More often than not, the satisfaction—or disappointment—that results from such a ...

SpaceX had a problem during a test of its Crew Dragon parachute system in April, NASA confirmed on Wednesday. "The test was not satisfactory," said NASA's chief of human spaceflight, Bill Gerstenmaier ...