In late November, Air Force Capt. Charlene Sufficool was one of 104 skydivers who built the largest parachute canopy ...

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On a clear morning in the early space age, the U.S. Air Force sent a single man to the edge of the atmosphere and told him to step off into the void. The man was Joseph Kittinger, a test pilot whose ...

Military parachutes are designed for reliability and control, not freedom of movement. For decades, round canopies carried paratroopers into combat, but hard landings and injuries pushed the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 100 skydivers from around the world, including Canada, travelled to Lake Wales, Fla., to break the world record for ...

The beloved granite cliff is known to California rock climbers but is also a lesser known launch site for wintertime BASE ...

Leaping out of a plane more than 4,200 metres in the air, Simon-Pierre Bouchard can’t control his excitement as he opens his parachute and wonders if everyone has gotten into place. “When we exit the ...

Four people from NASA's Crew-11 mission splashed down off San Diego, successfully completing five months aboard the ...

Roughly 95% of California’s old-growth redwood forests have been logged at least once, leaving mostly young trees and making the overall ecosystem less diverse. Fern mats — spongy masses of ...

Before the Armed Forces Bowl between Rice football and Texas State kicked off at Amon G. Carter Stadium on Friday, Jan. 2, two parachutists did not make it onto the field in Fort Worth, Texas.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A parachuter crash-landed during a pregame show before the Armed Forces Bowl on Friday at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth. The parachutist was part of a team performing before ...