I would love to try skydiving! Have you ever been parachuting before?
No, but I'd love to try it sometime and experience the free-falling before the parachute deploys.
Yes, that split-second feeling of absolute fear! I wonder who invented the parachute
It was  André-Jacques Garnerin, he not only invented it but was the first parachute jumper, so he has skin in the game
Oh wow, I wonder where he jumped from
He tested his prototype by jumping froma hydrogen balloon above Paris, that was in 1797.
Wow, from a hydrogen balloon? That's insane, he must've been an absolute madman!
. Garnerin tested his contraption by leaping from a hydrogen balloon above Paris. Garnerin's parachute bore little resemblance to today's parachutes, however, as it was not packed into any sort of container and did not feature a ripcord. The first intentional free-fall jump with a ripcord-operated deployment was not made until over a century later by Leslie Irvin in 1919. While Georgia Broadwick made an earlier free-fall in 1914 when her static line became entangled with her jump aircraft's tail assembly, her free-fall
Parachuting
Parachuting is a method of transiting from a high point to Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent with the use of a parachute or parachutes. It may involve more or less free-falling (the skydiving segment) which is a period when the parachute has not yet been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity.
History.
The first parachute jump in history was made by André-Jacques Garnerin, the inventor of the parachute, on 22 October 1797