EKS89

I'm pretty sure the crafts were not inside the physics bubble per Streetwind's comments. They just went poof. No reason to. They were past the point of having to worry about flames.

Thanks for the input guys. I guess they were not still in the physics bubble? ... I figured out that they would survive if I wasn't piloting any of them. Launched a recovery ship with the grapple. Pushed two of them out of atmosphere and then de-orbited one at a time. super annoying. Will be trying to design a ship that can carry lots of passengers and still de-orbit easily.

I have a multi-hitchiker design with a remote control on each. I want to de-orbit all thee of the hitchiker containers at once. I have a heat shield and parachutes on each of them. After the two that I'm not flying reach about 800m/s (after any flame worries) they blow up in atmosphere. No rhyme or reason. WHY!? I'm so titled right now... I flew this thing all the way to minmus. Landed it on the surface... decoupled the hitchikers and now I have no option but to watch these things blow up repeatedly because I have no save point from before I broke them up.... What did I do wrong here!? The chutes should deploy and the hitchikers land neatly on the surface for collection... I'm so freaking mad right now that I have to lose money and rep after a perfect mission...[