[The Q] is one such experimenter, who built a dual-thrust water rocket that even has a parachute for landing! The testing took place in an area strangely reminiscent of a certain operating system.

A Chinese Long March 2B rocket's booster was outfitted with a parachute for a launch. The system provides controlled landing ...

This piece of engineering is so simple and elegant, you’ll want to build a pretty serious water rocket just so you can try it out. It’s an automatic parachute deployment system that you build ...

The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946 when the Americans used a captured German V2 ...

From the control center comes a countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The rockets blast off, then gently float back to Earth under parachutes—if they don’t malfunction. An attendee works on a laptop from ...

The capsule that will one day ferry Indian astronauts to space and return them to Earth has been fitted with the key ...

Since then, they’ve moved to an office with real desks, gone through Y Combinator, and, today, announced an oversubscribed $6 ...

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...