Pioneer's main factory and distribution centers are located in Columbia, Mississippi[2] and Bloomfield, Connecticut.
[5] Pioneer partnered with DuPont to use the recently developed Nylon as an alternative to silk, and experimented with chute properties and optimised packing over the next 4 years.
This led to Pioneer becoming the world's leading manufacturer of parachutes, producing 300 per day at the height of WWII.
In 1962, Pioneer bought the rights to the newly invented "Parasail", and tested this as a landing method for the Gemini spacecraft.
[6] Pioneer subsequently produced chutes for many NASA spaceflight programmes, including Mercury, Gemini,[7] the Galileo probe, the Space Shuttle, the Mars Pathfinder missions, the Genesis solar-sample mission, the Stardust Comet Intercept Probe, and the Mars Exploration Rovers.