The Felix Challenge

[Captisaac21198]

In light of the Stratos's success...

My challenge is for you to recreate the mission.

use some sort off balloon plugin and find a way for your Kerbal to parachute down from 39000 meters

[The Destroyer]

Challenge accepted!

[Millitron]

My escape pods already kinda achieve this. I haven't ever put them on a balloon, but if they work from orbit there's no reason they wouldn't work from the upper atmosphere.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/23663-Lifeboat-Class-Escape-Pods

[Captisaac21198]

My escape pods already kinda achieve this. I haven't ever put them on a balloon, but if they work from orbit there's no reason they wouldn't work from the upper atmosphere.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/23663-Lifeboat-Class-Escape-Pods

But for maximum accuracy, you should try to use a balloon and come down on a parachute.

[TheDarkStar]

To find out where to jump from, you take 120000 and devide it by 5280, multiply that by 1.6, and multiply by 1000. Then you divide to account for Kerbin's smaller size. Although Kerbin's atmosphere is between 1/5 and 1/8 the height of Earth's atmosphere, atmosphere size and density per altitude don't scale linearly in relation to planet size (as far as I know). I'm guessing a corresponding height would be at between 15000 to 20000 meters.

[mark_mazz]

I had one stock idea for this. I even made another challenge for it

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/23675-KerBull-Stratos-STOCK