14-06-30 A US space agency (Nasa) experiment on Saturday to test future Mars landing technologies proved largely successful. 美国宇航局上周六进行了一次未来的火星降落实验，结果大获成功。 Artist's impression: A rocket motor was used to shoot the vehicle up thr...

14-05-08 A Peruvian air force officer has survived a fall of about 1,500 metres after his parachute malfunctioned during an exercise. 秘鲁空军一名军官在一次跳伞训练中降落伞发生故障，从1500米高空中坠落，死里逃生。 Arnulfo Gamarra had jumped from a military pl...

12-09-13 Charles Chuck Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese pri...