The easy way to deorbit (not recomended)

[SGT_RIZZO300]

I was screwing around with space cannons (making kerbals jump into activated rockets in orbit) and when I fired Jeb he slamed into one of my fuel shuttles going through it and eventualy hiting my space station that was right behind it and ended up smashing the entire thing apart wich slowed him down enough to deorbit. This is clearly the cheapest way of getting kerbals home. Rescue pods are expensive but definately not stations!

[AustralianFries]

Nice... I've used the Mass Relay (kind of like the one seen

) on my station to send a kerbal pretty much straight down into Kerbin. The orbital line was perfectly straight and was directed into the core of Kerbin. Needless to say, that kerbal did not have fun.

[ROFLCopter64bit]

I've made portable Mass Relays capable of giving ships an extra 600m/s of delta-v. Using uncoventional methods, of course.

[AustralianFries]

I've made portable Mass Relays capable of giving ships an extra 600m/s of delta-v. Using uncoventional methods, of course.

This is KSP, nothing is conventional.

[ROFLCopter64bit]

I meant unconventional as in using the mass relay backwards, which gives 33% extra delta-v.

I call it a gravity tug.

[AustralianFries]

I meant unconventional as in using the mass relay backwards, which gives 33% extra delta-v.

I call it a gravity tug.

I'd call that more of a Gravity Cannon, rather than a tug...

[ROFLCopter64bit]

I'd call that more of a Gravity Cannon, rather than a tug...

Well, a Mass Relay blows things away from it.

An orbital tug puts things towards it.

[AustralianFries]

Well, a Mass Relay blows things away from it.

An orbital tug puts things towards it.

I know, I understand. Just joking with you.

[ROFLCopter64bit]

Oh, okay. The closest thing I can make to a cannon is a LKO Ion Cannon.

[SGT_RIZZO300]

I am currently working on making a cannon to fire kerbals straight up from the launchpad, my best speed so far is about 500 M/S. I might use angled R-10s to get even more but if I get it high enough I plan to time it with one that is in orbit that will then fire that kerbal forward putting them into orbit..... only in KSP lol

[cesarcurado]

I just burn retrograde, simple as that

Yes, it needs some fuel but it isn't much anyways

[Specialist290]

I just burn retrograde, simple as that

Yes, it needs some fuel but it isn't much anyways

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[cesarcurado]

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nope

I actually got it, I just said how I do it