The giant parachute the B-52 uses for each landing weighs 200 pounds and is 90 feet long. It reduces the amount of stress on ...

Here’s Dr. Douglas Adams, MSL Parachute Cognizant Engineer, to tell you why and how it works in this exclusive Gizmodo interview, recorded yesterday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...

We learned the pilot deployed the emergency Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, or CAPS, which allowed it to crash-land safely. Now, we’re learning more about how those parachutes work.