Harness, parachute.

UE Parachute. We have to open a parachute just seconds before, I would say, impact.

Tom's parachute didn't open.

Video Okay, we have parachute aligned.

And you put on the T 10 parachute.

A parachute opens up to slow it down.

A parachute jump from the very edge of space.

(vi) Free Flight Rockets

Free flight rockets such as disposable anti tank rockets can pose a serious hazard when they become duds.

Design and simulate model rockets

You saw in the video a parachute breaking. That would be a bad day, you know, if that happened, so we have to test, because we are deploying this parachute at supersonic speeds.

Two stage rockets, rockets with video cameras on them, on board computers logging their flights, rocket gliders that fly back to Earth.

This probe actually can't use chemical rockets.

Two other rockets landed in Lebanese territory.

And then a jumpmaster comes, and he's an experienced NCO in parachute operations.

And then you wait for the opening shock for your parachute to open.

EB If you fire the 'chute too early, the parachute itself could fail.

These rockets use experimental motors like nitrous oxide.

Their canoes, our rockets their sea, our space.

BG So the wings have their own parachute, and you have your two parachutes.

I was thinking about making my own little rockets.

This artist's impression turned into reality when a parachute landed on Titan, Saturn's giant moon.

Richard Kornfeld There is this window of opportunity within which we can deploy the parachute.

Starting on 18 May, a two day barrage of Qassam rockets, mortar shells and anti tank rockets was launched at various Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.

And the boys get bigger, and the rockets get bigger.

Ten years ago, on a Tuesday morning, I conducted a parachute jump at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

EB Now the spacecraft actually has to decide when it's going to get rid of its parachute.

Between 1962, when the use of KSC began, and February 1994, a total of 336 rockets (24 Mu, 25 Lambda, 119 Kappa and 172 S and test rockets) were launched.

By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.

And rockets are small. So you have to make it smaller.

(iii) Free Flight Rockets (ground to ground and air to ground)

I've got, you know, this enormous balloon above me, it's the biggest parachute ever, why not use it?

5,000 maximum, and no rockets. No, no, not going to do it.

That tiny community has suffered nearly 1,000 such rockets in recent years.

If you don't get an opening shock, you don't get a parachute you've got a whole new problem set.

And then the landing, as we have seen, arriving on this side of the channel, is through a parachute.

To give you an idea of the size, you know, of that parachute relative to the people standing there.

In infrared astronomy, observations from stratospheric balloons and sounding rockets have been conducted.

Over 20 Qassam rockets were fired at Israel since the beginning of December.

These include Soyuz 2, Proton M and the Angara family of carrier rockets.

So the balloon is being filled up with helium on the left hand side, and the fabric actually runs all the way to the middle where there's a piece of electronics and explosives being connected to a parachute, and then the parachute is then connected to the payload.

You do some routine refresher training, and then you go to put on your parachute and a buddy helps you.

One of the largest weapons caches reported in Liberia in June 2004 was never found 10 175 mm anti aircraft weapons and 375 cases of ammunition containing 24 rockets apiece, 1 multi tube rocket launcher, 40 122 mm tubes and 250 cases of ammunition containing 12 rockets apiece, 12 82 mm rocket launchers with 300 cases of ammunition containing 24 rockets apiece and 15 81 mm rocket launchers with 300 cases of ammunition containing 24 rockets apiece a complete heavy weaponry arsenal.

I told Caine that when I was a kid, I also built cardboard rockets.

Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.