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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To investigate three variables affecting a parachute's rate of descent and then design a parachute that will descend as slowly as possible. Discuss with students some uses for parachutes (to slow down ...

The parents of a Coronado Navy SEAL killed in a June 2014 parachute training accident are suing the manufacturer for design defect, negligence and wrongful death, in a case that involves parachutes in ...

NATICK, Mass. -- Two research, development and engineering centers have come together to collaborate on making unique parachutes from high-strength para-aramid materials, which are sometimes used in ...