Derek Abramson, left, and Justin Link, right, attach an Alta X drone to the Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy test experiment on June 4, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center ...

Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It's an even bigger challenge when you don't have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the ...

NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the first test of the Ares I rocket’s three main parachutes Wednesday. The parachutes — the largest rocket parachutes ever manufactured — are ...

Karman wins a NASA SkyFall Mars mission contract to build a parachute system, boosting its space exploration profile.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023, and safely delivered a cannister of rocks and dust collected from near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need for clear instructions. Reading time 2 minutes Inconsistent labels in the ...

How do you test the parachutes that will save spacecraft as they tumble towards the surface of a planet from the reaches of space? In the world’s largest wind tunnel, of course. This is a view inside ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex capsule carrying an asteroid sample successfully landed in a Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA Before NASA recovered a capsule holding bits of space rock from the desert, ...

After more than 25 years in orbit 250 miles above the Earth, some may see the operations of the International Space Station (ISS) as routine. Nearly 300 astronauts from 21 different nations have been ...