T he Boeing 747 continues to be recognized as one of the most iconic commercial jets of all time. Originally introduced in ...

The Space Shuttle programme, developed by NASA, introduced the world’s first reusable spacecraft. Operating from 1981 to 2011, the shuttles carried out 135 missions, completing over 21,000 orbits and ...

• First use of a drag chute during a Shuttle landing. Not only was the mission the first flight for the orbiter, it was especially notable for the first 3-person spacewalk. (NASA Image) ...

Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, departed the ISS on Saturday at 5:57 p.m. ET on board a Soyuz spacecraft before making a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 ...

Splashdown is a process of landing a spacecraft in a body of water, mostly seas and oceans, especially by a parachute. The same process was used by American manned spacecraft prior to the Space ...

On the descent back to Earth’s surface, “a steerable parafoil parachute” would have “deployed at an altitude of about 40,000 feet to carry it through the final descent and landing.” ...

SEATTLE — Hoping to be a part of history thousands of people continuously returned to the Mojave Desert in Mojave to watch space shuttle landings. During the 1980s, photographer and author Ted ...

The four members of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station arrived to the former shuttle landing facility on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 ahead of their planned launch on March 1 on ...

In the last stage of the landing, it descended under a red-and-white parachute at about 7.2 meters per second (16 mph), with small rockets fired in the final seconds to cushion the touchdown.

The crew planned to return home in mid-March aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Days earlier, they made a ship-to-ship call with shuttle Columbia, flying the STS-107 microgravity research mission.

The privatization of manned space travel Back in 2014, NASA announced a pair of “groundbreaking” contracts, granted to Boeing and SpaceX, aiming to bring the job of ferrying astronauts to and from the ...

Starliner did dock with the space station during Orbital Flight Test 2 in 2022. But two major problems with the landing parachute and flammable wiring tape kept the project grounded for more time.