NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the first test of the Ares I rocket’s three main parachutes Wednesday. The parachutes — the largest rocket parachutes ever manufactured — are ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – NASA and industry engineers successfully tested the main parachute for Constellation Program rockets during a drop test Thursday at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, ...

How do you test the parachutes that will save spacecraft as they tumble towards the surface of a planet from the reaches of space? In the world’s largest wind tunnel, of course. This is a view inside ...

The primary issue is that a returning spacecraft is hurtling at the Earth at breathtaking speed; Orion hit Mach 35. How on ...

Airborne Systems traces its origins to 1919 when a stunt-man for the fledgling California film industry made the world’s first free-fall parachute jump.

Over the past four years, the Dragon spacecraft has returned eight NASA crews by performing a parachute-assisted splashdown in the ocean, but the crew capsule now has a backup landing method in the ...

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has received a $40.3 million task order from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center to carry out manned flight qualification tests on the agency’s Orion space capsule’s ...