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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As skydivers well know, it's a good idea to look before you leap -- and to pack a trusty parachute, too. A weighty spacecraft zooming toward a planet's surface at several miles per second will, after ...

WASHINGTON — A test of parachutes for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft did not go as planned last month, NASA and SpaceX confirmed May 8. During a hearing of the House Science Committee's space ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discuss with students some uses for parachutes (to slow down human descent, to drop supplies and other materials into war zones, to slow down vehicles such as the space shuttle and the rovers). Ask ...

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 ...