Airborne Systems traces its origins to 1919 when a stunt-man for the fledgling California film industry made the world’s first free-fall parachute jump.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the first drop test of the main parachute that will help recover the first stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. Ares I will ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – NASA and industry engineers successfully tested the main parachute for Constellation Program rockets during a drop test Thursday at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, ...

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 ...

The Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the moon in over 50 years, is preparing to conclude its journey. The crew made history with the first woman, Black man, and Canadian to fly near the ...

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has received a $40.3 million task order from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center to carry out manned flight qualification tests on the agency’s Orion space capsule’s ...

NASA had a tough decision to make after the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield came back with severe damage on the Artemis I mission: Stick with it at the possible risk of human lives, or replace it and ...