I am going to tell you a story of how I got 7 kerbals into an escape trajectory out of kerbin. The story starts off with me jokingly slapping together a rocket with about 10 of those orange fuel tanks in different places. I go to test the rocket when I discover the rocket flies very well. Shocked, I start to improve my design. Keep in mind I'm an amateur at KSP. As I improve the design and launch some rockets into orbit, I get the unoriginal idea of making a space station. I fire the thing up and shoot it into orbit. It had been so long since I actually got something to stay up there. As I try to send a random attachment to it, I fail and end up scrapping both missions. That means the station and the attachment. I decide I want to send up a bunch of men in that one rocket at the same time. What I did is I grabbed the first cockpit with a capacity of 3 men. I begin by putting all the men in the ship on EVA and I move them away from the launchpad. I repeat the process until I have 8 men waiting at the side. I ended the flight of the guy still in the ship. I drag out my ship that got into orbit earlier and bring the first kerbal forward towards the ship at 4X speed because I was being impatient. The kerbal's name was Sidler. I forgot to drop the ladders down and so I switch to the ship. After about 5 seconds, I start to hear explosions. The whole ship was starting to explode directly over Sidler. Sidler died and so I brushed it off and pulled out another ship. I look for the kerbals that were standing at the edge of the launchpad and they had disappeared. I go over to the Space-observatory-thingy and check for the kerbals. Sure enough they were there on the screen under EVA's. I clicked on EVA's and under every kerbal it listed "on escape trajectory out of kerbin." The funny thing is they weren't in any sort of ship or anything. Purely just EVA's flung into space by an explosion. They're extremely lucky to be alive. I ended their flights because I had no use for them. Turns out that since I sped up the game and the suddenly slowed it down by switching ships, it caused the top cockpits to tip over and break off. The end result was an explosion. R.I.P. Sidler.