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The first living thing to fall to earth with a parachute was a sheep. The animal, attached to a seven-foot-wide umbrella, was dropped from a tower in France late in the 18th century, but the first person to use a parachute was a Frenchman named Andrê Garnerin. In 1797, Garnerin climbed into a basket attached to a hot-air balloon
