Carl Kuehner became Blue Origin's astronaut number 70, which based on prior precedent, was determined by the seat on board ...

The parachutes that will slow NASA's Orion crew capsule during its descent back to Earth aced an important test last week. Orion's parachute system "deployed as planned after being dropped from an ...

Using a cargo parachute from a military surplus store, they transformed the cement mixer, USA Today reports. And some people, like that one scientist, took the capsule to be the real thing.

As seen in this June 2017 photo, the Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) of the Orion Space Capsule underwent extensive developmental and qualification testing at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground.

Space Perspective, Planet Earth's leading luxury space travel company, unveils the patent-pending Spaceship Neptune capsule design now in production at the company’s state-of-the-art campus ...

There—somewhere—the telltale orange parachute with the instrumented nose capsule of ... SPACE: Capsule in the Icestack. 2 minute read. TIME. May 4, 1959 12:00 AM GMT-4. ...

On May 19, during its first crewed flight in two years, one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate, prompting an investigation.

A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is ...

The spacecraft is scheduled for a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan. The Associated Press. Soyuz space capsule bringing 3 Space Station crew members back to Earth. Posted: ...

A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted ...

Boeing was set to launch its first astronauts into space next month. But engineers found flammable tape and problems with the capsule's parachutes. The Starliner program has been plagued by delays.

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the crew for Artemis II, the first non-test flight of the Orion Space Capsule, currently scheduled for late 2024. The mission ...