Takashi Koyama has been identified as the 60-year-old man who died in a fatal skydiving accident in Longmont, Colo. on Nov.
Recovery crews brought NASA's flying saucer-like test vehicle back to port in Hawaii Tuesday, along with critical high-resolution video and data that should help engineers figure out what went wrong ...
A gigantic supersonic parachute that NASA is developing to help land heavy payloads on Mars was torn apart during yesterday's "flying saucer" test flight over Hawaii, agency officials said. The ...
NASA's huge supersonic parachute isn't ready to land astronauts on Mars just yet. The 100-foot-wide (30 meters) chute — the biggest supersonic parachute ever deployed — was apparenty torn apart today ...
Three seconds into his 200-foot-fall from a Cripple Creek bridge, Marty Adams was convinced he was going to die. As he plummeted 55 mph toward the rocky canyon roughly 40 feet below him, all the ...
The parachute was a source of contention when it was introduced in the late 1990s. Opponents decried it as the equivalent of training wheels for a plane. And in 2011, Aviation Consumer, a consumer ...
A supersonic parachute meant to slow a flying saucer during landing quickly failed during a test flight Monday – a second strike that the team had been hoping to avoid. Now, researchers at NASA’s Jet ...
XPeng Aeroht said on Friday that the company has developed a multi-parachute rescue system for its X2 flying car. The flying car company is affiliated with Chinese EV manufacturer Xpeng Inc (NYSE:XPEV ...
Reporting from San Francisco — Flying cars are beginning to look less like science fiction these days, with big companies and small start-ups developing working prototypes. Nothing’s commercially ...
NASA’s “flying saucer” took to the skies without trouble Monday, but one of the main technologies it was testing – a parachute meant to help future craft land on Mars – didn’t work as planned. A giant ...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify the name of the hospital Marty Adams was transported to and where he had his appointment on Wednesday. Three seconds into his 200-foot-fall from a ...