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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.
Harry Reed from Bournemouth describes his D-Day celebration jump into Normandy.
Former Brexit minister Steve Baker has said his parachute failed to open during a skydive on holiday in Portugal.
The name STEVE is actually an acronym for “strong thermal emission velocity enhancement,” a technical term used to describe this brief purple-pink splash across the sky.
Scripps CEO discusses deal's impact on growth, digital plans Journal's Steve Smith eligible for $8.7M golden parachute Spinning off newspapers was ‘enormously difficult,’ Scripps CEO says ...
Officials from NASA and SpaceX say that they are paying attention to a parachute issue with the Dragon spacecraft, but they do not believe significant actions will be needed to address it. Upon ...
NASA and SpaceX announced they are looking into why the fourth parachute on recent Dragon capsules appeared slow to open.
Skydiving legend and local businessman Ted Strong died recently in an accident during a training exercise. The 75-year-old died Friday, according to numerous online sources, but details of his deat… ...
A parachute on a SpaceX Dragon failed to open as expected as the capsule descended to Earth in January. It's the second time the apparent fault has occurred. NASA and SpaceX say they're investigating.
SpaceX conducted the last parachute test for its Crew Dragon spacecraft May 1, the same day company and NASA officials said they were in final preparations for the Demo-2 crewed test flight ...
Steve Strong’s opinion regarding prairie dogs is filled with inaccuracies and mistruths, to put it diplomatically. He cherry picks information to advance his profits-over-life agenda, so I th… ...
A pilot, co-pilot, and a navigator don't even begin to scratch the surface of what it takes to fly a B-52. Other crews also put a lot of hard work into the huge aircraft.