In the early hours of Sept. 7, NASA broke a world record. Less than 2 minutes after the launch of a 58-foot-tall (17.7-meter) Black Brant IX sounding rocket, a payload separated and began its dive ...

Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will rely on a special parachute to slow the ...

Useful for seizing isolated airfields deep behind enemy lines which can then be used to receive and deploy more troops and armaments, the tactic of mass parachute jumps has a long history with ...

YUMA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Arizona is home to one of the best army testing centers. Yuma Proving Ground is known for parachute testing and medical training. YPG’s Airborne Test Force conducted a medical ...

The ESA confirms a recent parachute test here on Earth has failed, making this the second failure in the last few months. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Update for 12:20 a.m. EDT on Sept. 7: Boeing's first Starliner spacecraft to carry astronauts landed safely, without its astronaut crew, early Saturday after a relatively smooth undocking, reentry and ...

Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. A fair number of missions to the Martian surface have failed, even some launched by the U.S. But we've been on something of a roll since 2003 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A parachute inflated during a test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft on Mars, but it then disintegrated immediately afterward, NASA officials said Tuesday. The parachute ...