Kerbin escape challenge

[Hejnfelt]

Bad news! Jeb's girlfriend Jessica cheated on him Now Jeb wants to get off Kerbin - FAST! Your job is to help him.

Jeb doesn't care where he goes. He just wants to escape Kerbin's gravity one last time.

Objective

Build a 1 man rocket and escape Kerbin as quickly as possible.

Scoring

Fastest time to achieving Kerbin escape trajectory. Lower is better.

One does not need to wait for escaping Kerbin's influence, just achieve a trajectory which will eventually bring Jeb away from Jessica.

Rules

• Ship must be manned by Jeb only
  
• No mods - Stock parts only
  
• No infini-glide
  
• No spamming de-couplers
  
• No dumping/burning fuel on the launch pad. Jeb thinks it's a waste of time.
  

Successful posts must include

• Screenshot on launchpad / airstrip
  
• Screenshot from orbit map showing Kerbin escape trajectory (blue line with small arrow at end) and time from launch
  

Suggestions and considerations

When you are about to achieve Kerbin escape trajectory, switch to orbit map, zoom out and spam your screenshot key (F1). Consider what time of day is best for escaping Kerbin influence. Consider what launch trajectory is most effective.

Leaderboard

1) 44 seconds - 1500lego

2) 60 seconds - Hejnfelt

3)

My own entry:

Escape time = 60 seconds exactly.

The SS Jessica ready to launch

Goodbye cruel world!

FU Jessicaaaaaaa!

Goodbye Kerbin!

Edited August 19, 2013 by Hejnfelt

[1500lego]

I win! Can I get a cookie?

[User Unrelated]

I was going to do this with some big solid boosters, but then I remembered the no mods part... no fun, jeb can't burn up ESCAPING the atmosphere now...

I'll have to try this later, I have a pretty good idea.

[The Jedi Master]

I win! Can I get a cookie?

I was about to call you on not having images, but they appear to be broken.

[Hejnfelt]

I win! Can I get a cookie?

No cookie and please fix your screenshots

I did however manage to check them and you move into 1st place with 44 seconds! Well done.

[Jodo42]

I hate to be an ass, and I know this is completely out of the spirit of the challenge, but the opportunity was too good to pass up.

Abiding by your rules; with a loophole:

http://imgur.com/WCKJ9NW

http://imgur.com/zzpYUNR

Couldn't get the images to work, so you'll have to make do with links.

[Hejnfelt]

I hate to be an ass

I sense this is not the truth...

At least you're honest about cheating. One could also hyperedit into space and burn an escape trajectory, but where's the fun in that?

[Nalin_Airheart]

This is basically the "go-up-as-fast-as-possible" challenge whose name has slipped my mind. Nevertheless I'm trying with my scrub demo skills.

[numerobis]

Infinite fuel gives you a lower bound for how fast you'll get up with rockets. Seems it'll be hard to make it in much better than 32 seconds. You could likely do a bit better using aerospikes, given how much drag you face, but not much.

I tried an aerospike-powered ship with a huge number of tiny stages, but I would need MechJeb to stage fast enough; I kept being behind and wasting fuel, so my best was over a minute on that spacecraft.