Tom Cruise broke a Guinness World Record during filming for "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" when he completed 16 skydiving jumps out of a helicopter while wearing a parachute that was on ...

The stunt, which arrives near the conclusion of the eighth M:I film, sees Cruise deploy a parachute and light it on fire while falling through the sky. Guinness noted that the actor had to jump out of ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Tom Cruise jumping out of a helicopter with a fiery parachute! The Academy Award-nominated actor is now also a two-time Guinness World Records title holder, earning a ...

Eyeing some of the components that enabled the rover to get safely to the Martian surface could provide valuable insights for future missions. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both ...

Rocket Lab has successfully launched its 26th Electron mission, deploying 34 satellites to orbit. Rocket Lab has now deployed a total of 146 satellites to orbit with the Electron launch vehicle. The ...

With every rocket launch, millions of dollars in hardware are used just once. Rocket Lab is looking to join companies like SpaceX, re-flying its rocket boosters multiple times to drive down launch ...

Most people wouldn't dare jump out of a helicopter on a dare, let alone do it sixteen consecutive times or with a burning parachute. Then again, most people aren't Tom Cruise, the long-established ...

Edward C. Smith has received fundamental research funding from the US DoD, NASA, and several aerospace companies throughout his 32 years as a faculty member at Penn State. None of these agencies or ...

A Helitack crew member prepares to jump while hovering over nine feet of brush during training near Pozo on July 17, 1967. The firefighters trained to clear a spot for reinforcements to arrive. Jim ...