At least seven people were killed and 13 injured after an airplane carrying parachute jumpers in Russia's Kemerovo Region crashed, Tass News Agency reported.
U.S.NationalAeronauticsandSpaceAdministration(NASA)hascompletedthefirsttestofitsMars2020mission'sparachute-testingseries,theAdvancedSupersonicParachuteInflation
It's hard to believe it's been almost three years since Amazon announced its plan to deliver packages via drone. The first air delivery occurred last December in the UK and the retailer continues to refine the concept with futuristic ideas to perch the flying couriers on streetlights and deploy them from flying warehouses.
It'shardtobelieveit'sbeenalmostthreeyearssinceAmazonannounceditsplantodeliverpackagesviadrone.ThefirstairdeliveryoccurredlastDecemberintheUKandtheretailercontin
The gouge in the ground probably made by Europe's Schiaparelli probe as it hit the surface of Mars on Wednesday has been imaged by a US satellite.
Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday on Thursday by taking to the air for a tandem skydiving jump.