NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Finds Perseverance's Dusty Landing Gear on Mars
28 Apr 2022, 00:58 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA's little helicopter has captured several images of the gear that helped the Perseverance rover safely land on the Red Planet a year ago
Russian Military’s Smart Parachute Can Deliver Essential Cargo in Autonomous Mode
12 Feb 2022, 07:37 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / This new "smart" parachute can deliver large quantities of essential cargo for the Russian military using only navigation systems
ExoMars Mission Parachutes Get Dropped From 18 Miles High, Still Some Issues
2 Jul 2021, 12:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency conducted the first high-altitude drop test of the two parachutes that will land ExoMars on the Red Planet in 2023
ExoMars Rover Parachutes Tested Horizontally, High-Altitude Drop Coming Next
26 May 2021, 09:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency is ready to move parachute testing for the ExoMars rover to the next stage, a high-altitude drop
Here’s a Flying Coach Potato: Paraglider Takes Off With His Sofa, Chips, TV
5 Jul 2020, 04:47 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Professional paraglider Hasan Kaval takes off to the skies in a homemade contraption he dreamed up a couple of years ago, becomes viral star
SpaceX Crew Dragon Can Safely Fall Out of the Sky with Malfunctioning Parachute
4 Nov 2019, 08:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the competition readies to launch its own capsule, SpaceX announced the parachute system of the Crew Dragon works even if one of the four parachutes fails
22 Troopers Injured in Parachuting Accident as Winds Blow Them Away Into Trees
4 Oct 2019, 13:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The military exercise took place at Camp Shelby, Mississippi and saw hundreds of troopers jump off planes. More than 80 were blown away by the strong wind
2 Russian BMD-2 Armored Vehicles Fall Out of the Sky During Drill
23 Sep 2019, 12:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The parachutes failed to open and the 7-ton military vehicles, which were unmanned, fell 5,000 feet and were destroyed upon impact with the ground
Skydiver Freefalls 5,000 Feet After Both Parachutes Fail to Open, Survives
16 Aug 2019, 22:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 30-year-old woman from Canada is recovering in the hospital after a terrifying malfunction and steep drop, is expected to survive
Watch a Paratrooper Cadet Completely Freak Out on His First Jump
19 Jul 2019, 13:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Video shows Russian cadet go into full panic mode as he’s about to make his first jump, being thrown out of the plane by his instructor
NASA Official Says SpaceX Failed Parachute Test in April
10 May 2019, 15:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA associate administrator Bill Gerstenmaier reveals a parachute test conducted by SpaceX in April was a failure, says lessons were learned
Parachutes Don’t Save The Life of Those Jumping From a Plane, New Study Shows
19 Dec 2018, 14:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The PARACHUTE trial for the Look Before You Leap study shows how misleading research can be if it's not properly interpreted
15YO Boy Jumps From 14-Story Building With Homemade Parachute For Media Stunt
17 Dec 2018, 12:52 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Mother and relatives of the known daredevil watched and cheered him on, as he jumped to his death: the parachute failed to deploy and he was killed on the spot
Badass Grannie is Oldest Skydiver in The World at 102
14 Dec 2018, 13:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Irene O’Shea from Australia skydived for the second time in her life to break her own record and raise awareness for the disease that killed her daughter
NASA Drops Orion Spacecraft from Plane, Parachute Test Successful
13 Sep 2018, 15:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The final test of the parachutes that will be used on the Orion spacecraft concluded successfully on Wednesday in Arizona.
Santa Claus Mistakes the Back of a Citroen C3 for a Chimney
8 Nov 2016, 17:26 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / We see a lot of publicity stunts, some of them really dangerous, that go very well, but here is one that didn't exactly end as planned
Skydiver Dangles 30 Minutes Off the Plane, Miraculously Parachutes Safely
2 Nov 2015, 12:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / They say that people rarely get the chance to trick death, but if it ever happens this surely was one of those cases. Experience may have played a part, too
Google’s Vice President Breaks Highest Parachute Jump Record
25 Oct 2014, 18:27 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Alan Eustace, Google’s senior vice president of knowledge, successfully jumped from the edge of space at 135,890 feet (41,420 meters) on Friday evening. The computer scientist remained in free...