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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scene from a video released by SpaceX Nov. 3 showing the latest test of the Mark 3 parachutes for its Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX said Nov. 3 that it has now carried ...

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 ...

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft descends under its parachutes at the end of the Demo-1 test flight in March. A test of the parachutes for that spacecraft in April failed when the parachutes didn't ...

Subtract a few computer monitors and the company logo, and you’d step inside Parachute’s new Los Angeles headquarters thinking you were in someone’s modern mansion. For founder, CEO, and design ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A test of parachutes for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft did not go as planned last month, NASA and SpaceX confirmed May 8. During a hearing of the House Science Committee's space ...