Issues with parachutes and tape for wiring harnesses will delay the first crewed flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner beyond July. Credit: Boeing/John Grant WASHINGTON — NASA and Boeing will further ...

Scientists from NASA are conducting a series of research flights to advance the supersonic parachutes. The plan is to make these parachutes more reliable and safer with advanced sensors. These ...

Captain Mark Tyler Voss, 27, Captain Victoria Pinckney, 27, and Technical Sergeant Herman “Tre” Mackey III, 30, were the first airmen killed in a KC-135 crash since the Air Force stripped the ...

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq during a combat refueling mission, killing all six crew members aboard. The loss occurred over friendly territory with no hostile or friendly fire ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule descends on the NS-25 mission May 19 with only two of its three parachutes fully inflated. Credit: Blue Origin webcast WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has scheduled its next ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- It's not a bird. It's not a plane. For Fayetteville's Tony Hardin, though, it's his preferred way of flying. The powered parachute appears to most to be some sort of bicycle ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard returned to crewed suborbital flights, successfully sending six astronauts to space. However, after a long hiatus, there is another huge concern due to a parachute failure.

Spirit in the sky-dive. A Spirit Airlines passenger sparked guffaws galore after he was spotted wearing a parachute aboard a flight — with many viewers joking that it was a smart move given the ...

Xpeng AeroHT has some high-flying goals for the future and now it has a way to keep passengers safe if one of them doesn’t work out. It’s just introduced a new multi-parachute rescue system for flying ...

A TikTok creator is coming to terms with the attention she and her husband received after a video became viral of her husband bringing his parachute on board a Spirit Airlines flight. The original ...

Despite a parachute failure, NASA officials say the experimental Ares I-X rocket performed as well or better than computer modeling predicted during its six-minute test flight. Bill Harwood has been ...