100Kg kerballed re-entry vehicle.

[Ol’ Musky Boi]

An interesting exploit of the inflatable airlock that I discovered, they make excellent re-entry vehicles!

Simply de-orbit with EVA pack, then bail out and land with the EVA parachutes. As far as I'm aware this is the lightest possible stock re-entry vehicle (a command chair and small radiator masses in at about 150kg), perhaps it might have applications in extremely low mass missions? Maybe @EvermoreAlpaca can come up with something...

Edited May 25, 2019 by Ol’ Musky Boi

[KosmoNot79]

1 hour ago, Ol’ Musky Boi said:

An interesting exploit of the inflatable airlock that I discovered, they make excellent re-entry vehicles!

Simply de-orbit with EVA pack, then bail out and land with the EVA parachutes. As far as I'm aware this is the lightest possible stock re-entry vehicle (a command chair and small radiator masses in at about 150kg), perhaps it might have applications in extremely low mass missions? Maybe @EvermoreAlpaca can come up with something...

you can deorbit a kerbal if you get your apoapsis extremely close to the atmosphere. Otherwise I might ty this.

[Ol’ Musky Boi]

2 minutes ago, KosmoNot79 said:

you can deorbit a kerbal if you get your apoapsis extremely close to the atmosphere. Otherwise I might ty this.

That's true, but this method is only 5kg heavier, and with a heat tolerance of 2600K you could do interplanetary re-entries too.

 

[KosmoNot79]

On 5/26/2019 at 8:22 AM, Ol’ Musky Boi said:

That's true, but this method is only 5kg heavier, and with a heat tolerance of 2600K you could do interplanetary re-entries too.

 

true

[SRB]

Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE