An experienced Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) specialist practicing a free-fall jump in California last year overcontrolled his parachute canopy, causing it to stall before ...

Athletes from 20 countries perform a gravity-defying canopy stunt, setting the largest CRW formation ever recorded.

Engineers created a laser-cut Mylar disc that drops with surprising precision, promising safer, cheaper parachute system for ...

A parachute system has been designed to slow the landers down when they enter the Martian atmosphere at speeds of up to 20,000 kilometers per hour. The Mars rover teams have the added challenge of a ...

A parachute developed for the ExoMars mission is successfully tested in a high-altitude balloon drop test in Sweden in June. Credit: Vorticity WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency has resumed tests ...

USA President Bill Markham, president of The Round Canopy Parachuting Team - USA, kicks off Operation Black Cat V displaying an American flag during a jump at the three-day round canopy parachuting ...

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) — Jessica Edgeington became obsessed with skydiving when her parents bought her a jump for her 18th birthday. Now 32, the Virginia resident has made more than 6,000 jumps and is ...

Glenn Martin (standing). By 1913 Martin was taking credit for Broadwick’s invention, and the following year he patented it. Here, he and Tiny watch Broadwick stitch up the canopy of a parachute.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The phased-deployment model for the kind of parachute that saved a ...

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 ...