The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

In 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin’s daring leap over Paris revealed a flaw in early parachute design: violent oscillations that made descents unpredictable. French astronomer Jérôme Lalande’s proposal ...

In 2017 VICE documented Tyler, The Creator’s foray into furniture design in their web series Nuts + Bolts. Working with Herman Miller on a custom Eames lounger as well as professional carpenters to ...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] has won a $1.5 million, three-year NASA Mars Technology Development contract to develop guidance parachute technology for future Mars missions. The contract award, which will be ...

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 ...

Boeing's Starliner capsule is to return to Earth after a stay at the Space Station as part of a test mission before it flies astronauts. The parachutes are among the systems engineers are monitoring.