WASHINGTON — An incident involving a test of parachutes for one commercial crew vehicle has heightened awareness of the challenges involved in developing those systems, as well as determining what ...

Next year, the NASA rovers Perseverance and Curiosity and the Chinese rover Zhurong will be joined by another Martian explorer: The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos’s ExoMars rover, named ...

A parachute developed for the ExoMars mission is successfully tested in a high-altitude balloon drop test in Sweden in June. Credit: Vorticity WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency has resumed tests ...

NASA successfully kicked off a series of tests Sept. 30 to qualify Orion’s parachute system for flights with astronauts, a milestone that will help the agency safely return crew to Earth from ...

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft have been greatly successful in their NASA missions, in the form of both the Crew Dragon capsules which carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The drogue parachute is designed to slow the rapid descent ...

NASA Tuesday successfully completed another parachute test of its Orion spacecraft high above the skies of the U.S. Yuma Army Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona. The test examined the maximum ...

After an eventful 199 days in orbit that included major toilet malfunctions, a space olympics, and not one but two instances of the International Space Station spinning out of control, the Crew-2 ...

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 ...