Something Stoopid

[Tweeker]

I've been messing around with smaller lander, and eventually this got winnowed down to a ion powered external command seat.  With about 7500 m/s of Delta v. I flew it from LKO to the mun and back including re-entry and landing. This made me wonder what I could get away with re-entering in, and I came up with this:

Ditch the base for final descent

 

 

[Scotius]

Quick! Hide the screenshots! Do not give Felix Baumgartner any more ideas

[SyzygyΣE]

That's just beautiful. I would find it hard to make this kind of face if I was sitting on a chair descending through the depths of the atmosphere though.  

Edited August 6, 2016 by SyzygyΣE

[Archgeek]

Impressive!  I've had similar designs with a heatshield fail miserably.  I'm thinking the cubic octos I was mounting the chutes on were transmitting heat too directly, cooking the poor kerb.  Good job on yours, though!

[samstarman5]

4 hours ago, Tweeker said:

 

 

 

 

When you experience a cosmic wedgie for the first time.

[kiwi1960]

I proposed a challenge once to take a Kerbal up and land him on a heat shield, many accomplished the task, but you went to the Mun and back....

Amazing...

Did you see the 200 (Kerbin) year odyssey when someone took a kerbal to all the planets and Moons and then safely back to Kerbin? It bought a tear to my eye that did.

 

Edited August 6, 2016 by kiwi1960