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 ...

It's not every day you get to see a soldier fall from the sky and land in your kitchen. That's what happened on Tuesday, July 6th, when a parachutist cheated death and crashed through the roof of a ...

Twenty-one year old Shayna Richardson was making her first solo skydive in Siloam Springs, Ark., in October when her main parachute failed and her reserve chute didn't fully deploy. She was falling at ...

Across the social sciences, from anthropology to psychology, researchers have woken up to the realization that a true understanding of humanity requires collecting data across diverse cultural ...

Parachute failures are about 1 in 1,000, and one California skydiver is either extremely lucky or unlucky—depending on how you look at it ...

It's a base-jumping expedition where just about everything that could go wrong did. A base jumper took a big leap off a cliff and was flying 50 miles an hour when his parachute opened and twisted, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration’s failure to notify Capitol Police about a parachute stunt at a nearby baseball stadium led to an alert and urgent evacuation of the U.S. Capitol, ...

Parachute failure during an abort test is serious. It is a realistic test compared to what the drop tests do. Mechanically we expect it to abort with that profile and succeed, not half ass it. Some ...